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Evaluating Workfare When the Work is Unpleasant : Evidence for India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

Alik-Lagrange, Arthur - 2017

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

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Does India's Employment Guarantee Scheme Guarantee Employment?

Dutta, Puja - 2017

In 2005 India introduced an ambitious national anti-poverty program, now called the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural … the way it is designed, then anyone who wanted work on the scheme would get it. However, analysis of data from India …

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Local Funds and Political Competition : Evidence from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in India

Gupta, Bhanu - 2014

Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in India which was introduced by the Indian National Congress (INC). Using longitudinal data … on funds sanctioned and election results from three rounds of elections in Rajasthan, a state in India, we find an …

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Analyzing the Impact of the World's Largest Public Works Project on Crime

Das, Satadru - 2016

India started the implementation of a rural public works program in 2006, covering all districts of the country within …

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The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in Rajasthan : Rationed Funds and their Allocation Across Villages

Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop (contributor); … - 2016

The performance of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in Rajasthan has been a matter of debate, both for its stupendous performance in the initial years of the scheme, but also for the relative sharp decline after 2010. Using a large primary survey collected from a...

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The Political Economy of Implementing the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in India

Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop - 2015

This paper focuses on four selected questions. (1) How does local political competition and the characteristics of the elected officials matter for the implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS)? (2) Is there local capture of the benefits from the scheme? (3) What...

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Lockdown and rural joblessness in India : gender inequality in employment?

Dutta, Nabamita; Kar, Saibal - 2022

India experienced one of the strictest lockdowns during COVID-19 and sections of the workforce seemed overwhelmingly … disadvantaged. Given substantial poverty still, marginalized daily wage labor and gendered outcomes in the context of India …, economic shocks are expected to have disparate implications. Employing World Bank data for rural areas in six states of India …

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Does workfare work? : India's employment guarantee during COVID-19

Narayanan, S.; Oldiges, Christian; Saha, Shree - In: Journal of international development : the journal of … 34 (2022) 1, pp. 82-108

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Welfare and Poverty Impacts of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme : Evidence from Andhra Pradesh

Deininger, Klaus; Liu, Yanyan - 2013

This paper uses a three-round 4,000-household panel from Andhra Pradesh together with administrative data to explore short and medium-term poverty and welfare effects of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. Triple difference estimates suggest that participants significantly increase...

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Labor market effects of social programs : evidence from India's employment guarantee

Imbert, Clément; Papp, John - 2013

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