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Aggregate effects from public works: evidence from India
Cook, C. Justin; Shah, Manisha - 2020
This paper explores the aggregate economic effects from India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS …
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Aggregate effects from public works : evidence from India
Cook, C. Justin; Shah, Manisha - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012250473
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Administrative failures in anti-poverty programmes and household welfare : an investigation of India's employment guarantee programme
Basu, Parantap; Raj, Rajesh S. N.; Sen, Kunal - 2020
administrative failure - the persistent delay in paying beneficiaries on time in India’s iconic anti-poverty programme, the National …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012198891
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The "discouraged worker effect" in public works programs : evidence from the MGNREGA in India
Narayanan, S.; Das, Upasak; Liu, Yanyan; Barrett, … - 2017
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Safety net for India's poor or waste of public funds? : poverty and welfare in the wake of the World's Largest Job Guarantee Program
Klonner, Stefan; Oldiges, Christian - 2014
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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Option values, switches and wages : an analysis of the employment guarantee scheme in India
Scandizzo, Pasquale (contributor); Gaiha, Raghav (contributor) - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001763143
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The employment guarantee scheme as a social safety net : poverty dynamics and poverty alleviation
Imai, Katsushi (contributor) - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001747107
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Asset creation and local economy under NREGS : scope and challenges
Shah, Amita; Jose, Sunny - 2009
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Why guarantee employment? : evidence from a large Indian public-works program
Zimmermann, Laura - 2020
Most countries around the world implement some form of a safety net program for poor households. A widespread concern is that such programs crowd out private-sector jobs. But they could also improve workers' welfare by allowing them to take on more risk, for example through self-employment. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012195155
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A minimum income guarantee in India : social assistance for a post-pandemic world
Mehrotra, Santosh K.; Rajagopalan, Anjana; Kumar, … - 2022
minimum standard of living for India's poor seems to be under threat. The sudden exogenous shock of COVID-19 to the incomes of …
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