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This paper examines the effects of India's Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, currently the world …'s largest public employment program, on household consumption and poverty rates in rural India. Combining regionally coded data … find that for this group of households,which accounts for thirty percent of India's rural population, employment …

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The political economy of policy reform : labour market regulation in India

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Adjustment policies, poverty and unemployment : the IMMPA framework/ ed. by Pierre-Richard Agénor, Alejandro Izquierdo, and Henning Tarp Jensen

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Heterogeneous welfare impacts of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme : evidence from Andhra Pradesh, India

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Social security expansion in the South : from welfare regimes to implementation : a study of India and its National Rural Employment Guarantee Act

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

Deininger, Klaus - 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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