theoretically ambiguous implications for the impacts on poverty. In the case of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme …

Public knowledge about India's ambitious Employment Guarantee Scheme is low in one of India's poorest states, Bihar …

used to assess the cost-effectiveness of India's Employment Guarantee Scheme in Bihar. Participants are found to have …

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

This paper examines the effects of India's Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, currently the world …'s largest public employment program, on household consumption and poverty rates in rural India. Combining regionally coded data … find that for this group of households,which accounts for thirty percent of India's rural population, employment …