Although the present analysis raises some concerns about the mistargeting of Employment Guarantee Scheme and, in this context, about the design and implementation of this scheme, the presumption that such public support makes the poor perpetually dependent on it seems somewhat exaggerated, if...

Emphasising that there is a relative dimension to deprivation, the paper makes an attempt to decompose income inequality among the rural poor into inequality in earnings per worker, in participation rate and covariance of earnings per worker and participation rate. The analysis based on a...