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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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Anti-poverty and special employment programmes in India : their role and effectiveness under the structural adjustment programme

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Basic income and a public job offer : complementary policies to reduce poverty and unemployment

FitzRoy, Felix R.; Jin, Jim Y. - 2017

Unconditional basic income, or a job guarantee by government as employer-of-last-resort, are usually discussed as alternative policies, though the first does not provide the benefits of an earned income and a good job to the growing numbers in precarious- or under-employment, while the second...

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