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Enhancing Livelihood Security Through the National Employment Guarantee Act Toward Effective Implementation of the Act

Hirway, Indira - 2014

strategies and rural development policies in India. Though the successful passage of the Act is due to the long struggle by NGOs … pro-poor economy growth.The past experiences of wage employment programs in India, however, suggest that there are several …

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National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme : Development Practice at the Crossroads

Panda, Bhagirathi - 2015

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme — despite its failings and dismissals by prominent economists as a “dole” — is in consonance with the idea of sustainable development whose important cardinal components are economic, social and environmental sustainability

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Enhancing livelihood security through the National Employment Guarantee Act : towards effective operationalisation of the act

Hirway, Indira - In: The Indian journal of labour economics : a quarterly … 48 (2005) 4, pp. 701-715

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Implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in India : spatial dimensions and fiscal implications

Chakraborti, Pinaki (contributor) - 2007

in India. Based on state-by-state employment demand-supply data and the use of funds released under NREGA, it is found …

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Implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in India : Spatial Dimensions and Fiscal Implications

Chakraborti, Pinaki - 2007

in India. Based on state-by-state employment demand-supply data and the use of funds released under NREGA, it is found …

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Labor market effects of a youth summer employment program in Sweden

Knutsson, Daniel; Tyrefors, Björn - 2024

We evaluate a non-targeted summer youth employment program (SYEP) for high school students aged 16-19 in Stockholm, Sweden, where public sector job offers were as good as randomly assigned. In contrast to previous studies evaluating SYEP that targeted groups with lower socioeconomic status, we...

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Labor market effects of a youth summer employment program in Sweden

Knutsson, Daniel; Tyrefors, Björn - 2024

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China's Labour Market in Transition : Job Creation, Migration and Regulation

Herd, Richard - 2010

Over the past decade, the share of jobs not controlled by the state has increased considerably, whilst employment in agriculture has declined, against the backdrop of ongoing urbanisation. Over 200 million people have been drawn into urban areas through official or unofficial migration, despite...

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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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The Impact of Indian Job Guarantee Scheme on Labor Market Outcomes : Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Azam, Mehtabul - 2012

(NREGA), enacted in August 2005, is one such program in India. This paper assesses \emph{causal} impacts (Intent-to-Treat) of …

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