We examine the efficacy of a popular anti-poverty programme, namely the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA …) of the Government of India. We argue that a chronic friction of wage payment delay in this flagship programme could … persists even when the worker has an outside employment option. If a programme of financial inclusion increases the …

states of India. We use five rounds of all-India employment data from the National Sample Survey quinquennial surveys from …The caste system - a system of elaborately stratified social hierarchy - distinguishes India from most other societies … India, with Dalits or Scheduled Castes (SC) clustered in occupations that were the least well paid and most degrading in …

on employment outcomes, using Ghana as a case study. We take advantage of a specific policy setting, in which strict stay … that the three-week lockdown had a large and significant immediate negative impact on employment in the treated districts …, particularly among workers in informal self-employment. While the gap in employment between the treated and control districts had …