There is growing awareness that development-oriented government policies may be an important counterinsurgency strategy … analyze the impact of one of the world's largest anti-poverty programs, India's NREGS, on the intensity of Maoist conflict. We …

administrative failure - the persistent delay in paying beneficiaries on time in India’s iconic anti-poverty programme, the National … Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA). Using a life cycle model, we argue that a long wage payment lag in this flagship … delay encourages worker participation in the NREGA programme. Our findings suggest that a conventional measure of …