Public knowledge about India's ambitious Employment Guarantee Scheme is low in one of India's poorest states, Bihar …

Public knowledge about India's ambitious Employment Guarantee Scheme is low in one of India's poorest states, Bihar …

's largest public employment program, on household consumption and poverty rates in rural India. Combining regionally coded data …This paper examines the effects of India's Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, currently the world … find that for this group of households,which accounts for thirty percent of India's rural population, employment …

This paper analyzes the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on households. In …

administrative failure - the persistent delay in paying beneficiaries on time in India’s iconic anti-poverty programme, the National …Administrative failures in anti-poverty programmes are widespread in developing countries. We focus on one such … performance of an anti-poverty programme - such as higher NREGA participation of rural households - would be misleading because it …

Evidence on the effectiveness of workfare as an anti-poverty program in developing countries is weak compared with the … evidence building by examining the impact of a large-scale workfare program in Bangladesh, the Employment Generation Program …'s efficiency. Moreover, further evidence is required on the impacts of work experience through workfare on subsequent labor market …