Cet article s’intéresse à la précision du ciblage du NREG (Programme National de Garantie de l’Emploi Rural) dans deux États indiens, le Madhya Pradesh (MP) et le Tamil Nadu (TN), et s’appuie, pour le faire, sur des données de 2009–2010 sur les ménages. Pour surmonter les...

India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) has been hailed as one of the country’s most creative social initiatives. Since the program was begun only recently (in 2004–2005) there is a need to assess household access to this program and persistence of benefits to households...

In this paper, the relationship is assessed between possessing information on, gaining access to and the efficacy of delivery of India's national rural employment guarantee scheme (NREGA) in three states. The results suggest that the link between information, access and the delivery of the...

Using pooled household level data for the Indian states of Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh we find that the size of landholdings is a negative predictor of participation in the National Rural Employment Guarantee Program (NREGP). In state level analysis this pattern survives in Rajasthan but...