generated additional jobs, but the share of employment growth from these sectors was small and skewed more toward higher …

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 …

India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) is one of the largest public works programs globally …

Rural non-farm development plays a key role in generating employment in many developing countries. Clustering is an … in harsh environments, improvements in infrastructure can significantly increase labor productivity in a cluster. In …

debate by assessing the induced gender employment bias of current taxation policies in these countries. It explores the … pattern of male and female employment and discusses the indirect tax distortions across sectors within each country and … between countries. The possible impact of the indirect tax distortion on male and female employment is quantitatively assessed …

functioning of rural nonfarm labor markets is therefore crucial in determining who has access to nonfarm employment. Previous … contacts are more likely to obtain nonfarm jobs. Moreover, guanxi has a larger effect on the nonfarm employment opportunities …