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Determinants and Persistence of benefits from theNational Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme:Panel Data Analysis for Rajasthan, India

by Raghbendra Jha; Raghav Gaiha; Manoj K pandey and S.Sankar ASARC Workomg Paper no. 2013/02 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 2004-05) there is a need to assess household access to this program and [...]

Heterogeneous Pro-Poor Targeting in the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

by Yanyan Liu  and Christopher B arrett Economic and Political Weekly, March 09, 2013 Using 2009-10 National Sample Survey data, this paper describes patterns of job-seeking, rationing, and participation in the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. At the national level, it finds that the self-targeting design of greater rates of self-selection into the [...]

Heterogeneous pro-poor targeting in India’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

by Yanaun and Christopher B. Barrett IFPRI Discission paper no.01218, October 2012 India’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) is the largest public works employment project in the world. Its most direct poverty reduction pathway is through boosting employment and income for the poor. How effectively this direct transfer mechanism reduces poverty turns [...]

“MGNREGA Sameeksha 2012″: An anthology of research studies on the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (2006–2012)

By the Ministry of Rural Development, India [2012] This report by Ministry of Rural Development is an analytical anthology of all major research studies done on Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Act (MGNREGA) that were published in various academic journals or came out as stand-alone reports. The report begins with a brief introduction to MGNREGA, its [...]

Female Labour Force Participation and ChildEducation in India: The Effect of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

by Farzana Afridi; Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay and soham Sahoo IZA DP No.6593, May 2012 We study the impact of India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children’s educational outcomes via women’s labour force participation. Using data from the Young Lives Study and taking advantage of the spatial and temporal variation in the intensity of implementation [...]

Does India’s Employment Guarantee Scheme Guarantee Employment?

by Puja Dutta, Rinku Murgai, Martin Ravallion, Dominique van de Walle EPW April 21, 2012 An analysis of the National Sample Survey data for 2009-10 confirms expectations that poorer states of India have more demand for work under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. However, we find considerable unmet demand for work on [...]

Addressing the employment challenge: India’s MGNREGA

by Ajit K. Ghose ILO Employment Working Paper No. 105 This important study provides an early assessment of India’s much acclaimed job creation programme – the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS). It examines, in particular, the effects of the programme on employment, wages and incomes of the rural poor. It also considers [...]

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