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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 [...]

Journal of Rural Development Vol. 31 April – June 2012 No. 2

CONTENTS 1. Factors Influencing Wage Structure of Handloom Workers in Assam 139 – Alin Borah Bortamuly, Kishor Goswami 2. Institutional Arrangements for Farmland Development : The Case of Ethiopia 151 – Abayineh Amare Woldeamanuel, Fekadu, Beyene Kenee 3. Employment of Rural Women In Sericulture – An Empirical Analysis 163 – S. Lakshmanan 4. India’s Total [...]

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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