National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, poverty and prices in rural India.

Welfare and Poverty Impacts of India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

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Impact of Rural Employment Guarantee Schemes on Seasonal Labor Markets: Optimum Compensation and Workers’ Welfare

Impact of Rural Employment Guarantee Schemes on Seasonal Labor Markets: Optimum Compensation and Workers’ Welfare The recent enactment of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in India has been widely hailed a policy that provides a safety net for the rural poor with the potential to boost rural income, stabilize agricultural production and reduce rural-urban migration. This paper, models...

Information and Corruption: The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in India

Rural Roads

INTRODUCTION Rural Road connectivity is a key component of rural development, since it promotes access to economic and social services, thereby generating increased agricultural productivity, non-agriculture employment as well as non-agricultural productivity, which in turn expands rural growth opportunities and real income through which poverty can be reduced. A study (Fan et al. 1999) carried...

India's (maharashtra) Employment Guarantee Scheme: Lessons from Long Experience

By now it is well recognized that the instrument of rural works programs (RWPs) has become an important component of strategies to alleviate poverty and hunger in many developing countries. The case for RWPs lies in the self-targeting nature of the schemes (see Dreze and Sen 1990; Ravallion 1991; Besley and Coate 1992; Besley and Kanbur 1993). Also, discriminations prevalent in some agricultura...