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Aggregate Effects from Public Works : Evidence from India

Cook, C. Justin - 2020

This paper explores the aggregate economic effects from India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS …

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Did Latvia's Public Works Program Mitigate the Impact of the 2008-2010 Crisis?

Azam, Mehtabul - 2012

To mitigate the impact of the 2008-2010 global financial crisis on vulnerable households, the Government of Latvia established Workplaces with Stipends, an emergency public works program that targeted registered unemployed people who were not receiving unemployment benefits. This paper evaluates...

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Labor Market Impacts of a Large-Scale Public Works Program : Evidence from the Indian Employment Guarantee Scheme

Zimmermann, Laura - 2012

Recent years have seen an increasing interest in using public-works programs as anti-poverty measures in developing countries. This paper analyzes the rural labor market impacts of the Indian National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, one of the most ambitious programs of its kind, by using a...

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The Impact of Indian Job Guarantee Scheme on Labor Market Outcomes : Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Azam, Mehtabul - 2012

(NREGA), enacted in August 2005, is one such program in India. This paper assesses causal impacts (Intent-to-Treat) of NREGA …

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Welfare Implications of India's Employment Guarantee Programme with a Wage Payment Delay

Basu, Parantap - 2015

) of the Government of India. We argue that a chronic friction of wage payment delay in this flagship programme could …

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Is Caste Destiny? Occupational Diversification Among Dalits in Rural India

Gang, Ira N. - 2012

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 … terms of manual labour. Along with the Scheduled Tribes (STs), the SCs have the highest incidence of poverty in India, with …

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Does Workfare Work Well? The Case of the Employment Generation Program for the Poorest in Bangladesh

Cho, Yoonyoung - 2018

Evidence on the effectiveness of workfare as an anti-poverty program in developing countries is weak compared with the relatively well-established role of public works during economic crisis as a social safety net. This paper contributes to evidence building by examining the impact of a...

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