The recent enactment of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in India has been widely hailed a policy that … provides a safety net for the rural poor with the potential to boost rural income, stabilize agricultural production and reduce … rural-urban migration. This paper, models the impact of such employment guarantee schemes in the context of an agrarian …

The purpose of this paper is to explore the notion of economic informality and its application in the rural context of … 'concrete conditions' of rural life in such economies. The circumstance, that most such economies are only partially … as economic informality. In 'marketizing' rural societies the continuing influence of traditional elements, such as …