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The Impact of NREGA on Rural-Urban Migration: Field survey of Villupuram District, Tamil Nadu
Jacob, Naomi - eSocialSciences - 2013
Migration can act as a negative force. It can lead to distress migration, which is what happens when people have to go to cities to find work because they cannot survive on what they can earn in their own villages. Can NREGA be used to curb rural urban migration? [CCS Working Paper No. 202].
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Jobs and Livelihoods Mapping the Landscape
IKF, IRIS Knowledge Foundation - eSocialSciences - 2014
wage informal employment, and scarcity of decent regular wage employment. The collection of essays discuss the labour … that skill development, inclusion of women, agricultural employment and social security need special focus. The articles … and employment. …
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State Finances: A Study of Budgets of 2011-12
RBI, Reserve Bank of India - eSocialSciences - 2012
The budgetary data for 2011-12 indicates the commitment of States to carry forward fiscal correction, as evident from the emergence of revenue surplus after a gap of two years and consequent reduction in fiscal deficit-GDP ratio. Notwithstanding the improvement in the revenue account, the...
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Rural Labor and Rural Nonagricultural Activities in the Philippines
Sanchez, Maria Teresa C - eSocialSciences - 2012
of rural nonagricultural employment opportunities affect the rural households' labor allocation decisions and the rural … of labor allocation and their sources of income as well as the structure of employment. It also makes use of labor market … employment opportunities affect the rural households' labor allocation decisions and the rural labor markets particularly for …
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Urbanization in India: Evidence on Agglomeration Economies
Mitra, Arup - eSocialSciences - 2011
The paper examines the urbanization pattern with context of India. The paper deals with various demographic aspects of urbanization. Also the paper focuses on characteristics and classes of cities, and poverty and slums. [Working Paper 141]. URL: [http://fgks.in/IndexServer/tifac/article/141.pdf]
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What Determines the Success and Failure of ‘100 Days Work’ at the Panchayat Level? A Study of Birbhum District in West Bengal
Mukherjee, Subrata; Ghosh, Saswata - eSocialSciences - 2010
West Bengal is not among the best performing states with regard to NREGA. The performance of all districts in the state is not equally discouraging. Some districts, in fact, have done well in generating good number of average person-days per household or in distributing the benefits of work in...
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Union Budget 2008-09: A Bag of Tricks to Get the Vote
Kumar, Arun - eSocialSciences - 2008
The budget is an election budget. There are lots of sectors which needs more attention. Many questions are raised at the end of the document which the government may fail to answer
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Myth of Chinese Labour Flexibility
Sundar, K.R. Shyam - eSocialSciences - 2014
India has been a land of myths. Industrial relations are no exception to this trend. The arguments in the name of supporting the chorus for labour law and governance reforms, when reviewed carefully would show several myths surrounding the debate. In consonance with the globalization ideology,...
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Transparency and Accountability in Employment Programmes The case of NREGA in Andhra Pradesh
Burra, Neera - eSocialSciences - 2010
initiated by the Government of Andhra Pradesh under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act this study finds that a new …
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India Labour Market Report 2008
Bino Paul G.D - eSocialSciences - 2009
discussion papers on themes such as employment, employability, labour law, and educational attainment, has provided useful cues …
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