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Author : Stefan Klonner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781912291205
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (912 download)
Download or read book The Welfare Effects of India's Rural Employment Guarantee written by Stefan Klonner and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Klaus Deininger
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Welfare and Poverty Impacts of Indias National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme written by Klaus Deininger and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indias National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) is one of the largest public works programs globally. Understanding the impacts of NREGS and the pathway through which its impacts are realized thus has important policy implications. We use a three-round 4,000-household panel from Andhra Pradesh together with administrative data to explore short- and medium-term poverty and welfare effects of NREGS. Triple difference estimates suggest that participants significantly increase consumption (protein and energy intake) in the short run and accumulate more nonfinancial assets in the medium term. Direct benefits exceed program-related transfers and are most pronounced for scheduled castes and tribes and households supplying casual labor. Asset creation via program-induced land improvements is consistent with a medium-term increase in assets by nonparticipants and increases in wage income in excess of program cost.
Author : Klaus Deininger
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Welfare and Poverty Impacts of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme written by Klaus Deininger and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper uses a three-round 4,000-household panel from Andhra Pradesh together with administrative data to explore short and medium-term poverty and welfare effects of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. Triple difference estimates suggest that participants significantly increase consumption (protein and energy intake) in the short run and accumulate more nonfinancial assets in the medium term. Direct benefits exceed program-related transfers and are most pronounced for scheduled castes and tribes and households supplying casual labor. Asset creation via program-induced land improvements is consistent with a medium-term increase in assets by nonparticipants and increases in wage income in excess of program cost.
Author : Klaus Deininger
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Welfare and Poverty Impacts of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme written by Klaus Deininger and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) is one of the largest public works programs globally. Understanding the impacts of NREGS and the pathway through which its impacts are realized thus has important policy implications. We use a three-round 4,000-household panel from Andhra Pradesh together with administrative data to explore short- and medium-term poverty and welfare effects of NREGS. Triple difference estimates suggest that participants significantly increase consumption (protein and energy intake) in the short run and accumulate more nonfinancial assets in the medium term. Direct benefits exceed program-related transfers and are most pronounced for scheduled castes and tribes and households supplying casual labor. Asset creation via program-induced land improvements is consistent with a medium-term increase in assets by nonparticipants and increases in wage income in excess of program cost.
Author : Madhusudan Bhattarai
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811062625
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Employment Guarantee Programme and Dynamics of Rural Transformation in India written by Madhusudan Bhattarai and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-08 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an assessment of the performance, impact, and welfare implications of the world’s largest employment guarantee programme, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA). Launched by the Indian government, the programme covers entire rural area of the country. The book presents various micro-level analyses of the programme and its heterogeneous impacts at different scales, almost a decade after its implementation. While there are some doubts over the future of the scheme as well as its magnitude, nature and content, the central government appears committed to it, as a ‘convergence scheme’ of various other welfare and rural development programmes being implemented at both national and state level. The book discusses the outcomes of the programme and offers critical insights into the lessons learnt, not only in the context of India, but also for similar schemes in countries in South and South-East Asia as well as in Africa, and Latin America. Adopting inter-disciplinary perspectives in analysing these issues, this unique book uses a judicious mix of methods---integrating quantitative and qualitative tools---and will be an invaluable resource for analysts, NGOs, policymakers and academics alike.
Author : Parantap Basu
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Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Welfare Implications of India's Employment Guarantee Programme with a Wage Payment Delay written by Parantap Basu and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We examine the efficacy of a popular anti-poverty programme, namely the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) of the Government of India. We argue that a chronic friction of wage payment delay in this flagship programme could adversely affect the welfare of the poor through two channels. First, it causes deferred consumption. Second, it turns labour into a credit good which makes an indebted household work harder to clear off his existing debt. The loss of welfare persists even when the worker has an outside employment option. If a programme of financial inclusion increases the indebtedness of the poor, a wage payment delay in the NREGA programme could escalate this welfare loss although the official indicator of success (i.e., participation) may not reveal this friction.
Author : Liu, Yanyan
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 7 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Targeting and the impacts of India's MGNREGS written by Liu, Yanyan and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MGNREGS has shown striking heterogeneity in pro-poor targeting across states. The declining demand for MGNREGS in recent years is due mainly to local imple-mentation failures that discourage workers. In Andhra Pradesh, MGNREGS significantly improved the welfare of participating households, especially the poor, scheduled castes and tribes, and casual laborers. It is desirable to provide MGNREGS work during the agricultural lean seasons - when work opportunities are scarce - rather than the peak seasons.
Author : Rob Jenkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781849045704
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (457 download)
Download or read book Politics and the Right to Work written by Rob Jenkins and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rare and hugely successful story in the global development world, Jenkins and Manor present detailed research that convincingly demonstrates the efficacy of the MGNREGA in India
Author : Pushkar Maitra
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)
Download or read book A Quantitative Analysis of Employment Guarantee Programs with an Application to Rural India written by Pushkar Maitra and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines the welfare effects of a work-fare program in an economy where agents face exogenous income shocks and are unable to insure themselves through private markets. A dynamic general equilibrium model is calibrated using data from two ICRISAT villages in the Indian state of Maharashtra, which had a functioning Employment Guarantee Scheme (EGS) in the period 1979-1984. In general, because ofits insurance aspect, the optimal wage rate in the EGS is found to be higher than the marginal product of labor. The optimal wage and the welfare gains of the program depend on how productive the EGS is, relative to the private sector. The welfare gains of paying the optimal wage as opposed to a wage equal to the marginal product of labor in the EGS varies from 0.01% of GDP to 2.63% of GDP, depending on the labor productivity of the EGS. The actual wage paid by the EGS during the years 1979-1984 yields a welfare level that is lower than paying a wage equal to the marginal product of labor. Moreover the 1988 increase in wages actually decreased wages.
Author : Parmod Kumar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317312996
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book MGNREGA: Employment, Wages and Migration in Rural India written by Parmod Kumar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) was enacted in India with the multiple objectives of providing employment in a rights-based framework, addressing rural poverty, checking migration, and building rural infrastructure. As such, every year around 15–20 per cent of households in India overall and 30 per cent in rural India receive some form of employment share under the MGNREGA programme. This volume looks at various aspect of the scheme, its linkage with employment, agricultural wages, livelihood and food security, gender issues, and migration in rural India. It also discusses challenges in implementation, hurdles and the relative successes of the scheme. Based on primary survey data from 16 major states in the country, the findings of the study provide key insights into MGNREGA and assess the implications for other welfare-oriented programmes. Rich in empirical data, this volume will be useful to scholars and researchers of political economy, economics, agriculture, rural development and sociology, as well as policymakers and nongovernmental organisations.
Author : Priyatosh Maitra
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book A Quantitative Analysis of Employment Guarantee Programs with an Application to Rural India written by Priyatosh Maitra and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Puja Dutta
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 1464801304
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (648 download)
Download or read book Right to Work? written by Puja Dutta and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India's ambitious National Rural Employment Guarantee Act creates a justiciable 'right to work' by promising up to 100 days of employment per year to all rural households whose adult members want unskilled manual work on public works projects at the stipulated minimum wage. Are the conditions stipulated by the Act met in practice, under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS)? What impact on poverty do the earnings from the scheme have? Does the scheme meet its potential? How can it do better? Right to Work? Assessing India's Employment Guarantee Scheme in Bihar studies the MGNREGS's impact across India, then focuses on Bihar, the country's third largest and one of its poorest states. It shows that although the scheme has the potential to substantially reduce poverty through extra earnings for poor families, that potential is not realized in practice. Workers are not getting all the work they want, nor are they getting the full wages due. The intended recipients' awareness of how to obtain work is low. In a controlled experiment, a specially designed fictional movie was used to show how knowledge of rights and processes can be enhanced. Although the movie effectively raised awareness and improved public perceptions of the scheme, it had little effect on actions such as seeking employment when needed. Supplyside constraints in responding to demand for work must also be addressed. A number of specific constraints to work provision are identified, including poor implementation capacity, weak financial management, and inadequate monitoring systems. Addressing these constraints would allow this major antipoverty program to come much closer to reaching its potential.
Author : Arthur Alik-Lagrange
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Evaluating Workfare When the Work is Unpleasant written by Arthur Alik-Lagrange and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prevailing practices in evaluating workfare programs have ignored the disutility of the type of work done, with theoretically ambiguous implications for the impacts on poverty. In the case of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, past assessments have relied solely on household consumption per person as the measure of economic welfare. The paper generalizes this measure to allow for the disutility of casual manual work. The new measure is calibrated to the distribution of the preference parameters implied by maximization of an idiosyncratic welfare function assuming that there is no rationing of the available work. The adjustment implies a substantially more "poor-poor" incidence of participation in the scheme than suggested by past methods. However, the overall impacts on poverty are lower, although still positive. The main conclusions are robust to a wide range of alternative parameter values and to allowing for involuntary unemployment using a sample of (self-declared) un-rationed workers.
Author : Anil K. Bhargava
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Impact of India's Rural Employment Guarantee on Demand for Agricultural Technology written by Anil K. Bhargava and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) is approaching eight years of implementation. Since 2006, it has offered up to 100 days per year of guaranteed public works employment to tens of millions of rural Indian households. It is intended to augment the purchasing power of the rural poor during droughts and slack agricultural production periods. Given its scale, it has the potential to generate additional ripples throughout the rural economy. Recent working papers have explored NREGA's effect of higher agricultural wages. This paper investigates whether this increase in the opportunity cost of agricultural labor incentivizes farm owners to adopt labor-saving agricultural technology. Using a regression discontinuity design and new Indian agricultural census data, this paper finds that NREGA causes a shift of roughly 20 percentage points away from labor-intensive technologies toward labor-saving ones, particularly for small farmers and low-powered technologies. This short-run result can lead to a variety of long-run outcomes in technology use, labor markets, and food security. A focus on education, skill development, and quality infrastructure alongside NREGA would augment the chances that the most positive long-run scenario occurs.
Author : Nayana Bose
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Evaluating the Impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme written by Nayana Bose and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Josef Novotny
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Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Employment Guarantee and Other Determinants of Subjective Wellbeing in Rural India written by Josef Novotny and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Large-scale socially oriented interventions that rely on monetary transfers have recently become something of a development mantra. These cash-based schemes are founded on the implicit assumption that extra income will translate into improvements in other domains of wellbeing. This paper examines this assumption by focusing on the effects of the Indian Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), a large social-security oriented and legally grounded public works intervention, on subjective wellbeing. It provides a case study from Tamil Nadu which draws on our own field research comprising 1,264 structured interviews in rural households. It was designed as a quasi-counterfactual study to compare the effects of MGNREGS in a region where it was widely implemented (in Sivaganga district) with a similar region (in Thanjavur district) with a population largely unaffected by MGNREGS at the time of our survey. The secondary objective of the paper is to examine the extent to which variables of subjective wellbeing, self-reported poverty, and income (and their predictors) overlap. The results suggest that wide implementation of MGNREGS is associated with higher global (absolute) life satisfaction but not with higher (relative) local life satisfaction. It is also associated with lower self-reported poverty and higher probability of escaping from poverty but not with lower probability of declining into poverty. In addition, the analysis confirms that income, global life satisfaction, local life satisfaction, and self-reported poverty are discrete, though correlated, concepts.
Author : Reetika Khera
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198070627
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (76 download)
Download or read book The Battle for Employment Guarantee written by Reetika Khera and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) is a unique initiative in the history of social security-it is not just an employment scheme but also a potential tool of economic and social change in rural areas. This volume presents the first comprehensive account of the 'battle for employment guarantee' in rural India. Staying clear of the propaganda and mud-slinging that has characterized much of the NREGA debate so far, the book presents an informed and authentic picture of the ground realities. The essays are based on field studies of NREGA by a team of researchers who have been actively involved in the campaign for the right to work. They examine a wide-range of issues such as entitlements, corruption, people's perceptions of NREGA, women's empowerment, mobilization of unorganized workers, and socio-economic impact of NREGA. They also provide a comparative analysis of the challenges and successes in the implementation of NREGA in different states including Orissa, Himachal Pradesh, and Rajasthan.
