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Changing wage structure in India in the post-reform era : 1993-2011
Jacoby, Hanan; Dasgupta, Basab - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 8 (2018) 8, pp. 1-26
This paper documents the changing structure of wages in India over the post-reform era, the roughly two-decade period … Indian state. While real wages have risen across India over the past two decades, the increase has been greater in rural …
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Impact of various schemes offered by central/state government among the agri labours in Tamil Nadu
Babu, K. Suresh; Gurunathan, K. Balanaga - In: International journal of business policy and economics 10 (2017) 2, pp. 163-175
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India's Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Act : assessing the quality of access and adequacy of benefits in MGNREGS public works
Ehmke, Ellen - In: International social security review 69 (2016) 2, pp. 3-27
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More is more : livelihood interventions and child labor in the agricultural sector
Chiodi, Vera; Escudero, Verónica - 2020
What works to reduce child labor in agriculture? In this paper, we evaluate two randomized livelihood intervention programs, aimed to reduce child labor, particularly in its most exploitative forms, in rural areas of Peru and the Philippines. In the first randomized experiment, we evaluate a...
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Asset Creation Through National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGs) and Its Impact on West Bengal Agriculture : A District Level Analysis
Kundu, Amit - 2016
An important objective of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme presently known as Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) is to raise agricultural productivity through creating different productive assets related to agriculture. The present study investigates...
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The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in Rajasthan : Rationed Funds and Their Allocation Across Villages
Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop (contributor);  … - 2017
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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Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) as Social Safety Net : Analysis of Public Works in Odisha, India
Das, Tushar Kanti - 2017
Social safety nets are transfers targeted to the poor or vulnerable. They facilitate access to health and education services to build human capital. To achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (earlier known as Millennium Development Goals), national and state governments as well as...
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Evaluating National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in India : A Dynamic Rural Survey Method Using Mobile Phones
Rangarajan, Janani; Kumar, Rajesh; Narayanamurthy, Sriram; … - 2015
National Rural Employment Guarantee Act is a scheme formulated by the Government of India for the uplifting of the … poorest of the poor in rural India. It has been implemented in all the states of India. The effectiveness of any scheme …
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Effect of Employment Guarantee on Access to Credit : Evidence from Rural India
Saraswat, Deepak - 2011
for poverty alleviation, adopted by Government of India since independence. It was implemented in year 2006, starting with … the first phase of 200 most backward districts in India. Two more consecutive phases were implemented to cover all rural … regions in India but, even after almost 6 years of its implementation, it has not been adequately analyzed for its effect on …
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The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme as a Safety Net in Birbhum, West Bengal
Dey, Subhasish; Bedi, Arjun S. - 2010
One of the four goals of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act is the provision of a, “Strong social safety net for the vulnerable groups by providing a fall-back employment source, when other employment alternatives are scarce or inadequate” (Ministry of Rural Development, 2008, p....
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