Does India's employment guarantee scheme guarantee employment ? (English)

In 2005 India introduced an ambitious national anti-poverty program, now called the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. The program offers up to 100 days of unskilled manual labor per year on public works projects for any rural household member who wants such work at the stipulated minimum wage rate. The aim is to dramatically reduce poverty by providing extra earnings for poor families, as well as empowerment and insurance...

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Author

Dutta,Puja Vasudeva;

Murgai,Rinku;

Ravallion,Martin;

Van De Walle,Dominique;
Document Date
2012/03/01
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS6003
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
India,
Region
South Asia,
Disclosure Date
2012/03/01
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
Doc Name
Does India's employment guarantee scheme guarantee employment ?
Keywords
participation rate

Language

English

Rel. Proj ID

IN-India: National Rural Employment Guarantee Evaluation -- P104857

Major Sector

FY17 - Social Protection

Theme

FY17 - Job Creation,FY17 - Social Protection,FY17 - Jobs,FY17 - Social Inclusion,FY17 - Data Development and Capacity Building,FY17 - Other Excluded Groups,FY17 - Social protection delivery systems,FY17 - Social Safety Nets,FY17 - Data production, accessibility and use,FY17 - Social Insurance and Pensions

Sector

FY17 - Social Protection

TF No/Name

TF093639-INDIA NATIONAL RURAL EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE EVALUATION,TF093658-SIEF - NATIONAL RURAL EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE SCHEME IN INDIA,TF094803-EMPLOYMENT OF THE RURAL EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE PROGRAM IN BIHAR,TF091354-LEARNING FROM THE NATIONAL RURAL EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE PROGRAM

Topics

Cash for Work,Labor Markets,Poverty,Rural Development,Unemployment,

Historic Topics

Poverty Reduction, Social Protections and Labor,

Historic SubTopics

Agricultural Growth and Rural Development, Employment and Unemployment, Inequality, Labor Markets, Labor Policies, Rural Labor Markets, Rural Settlements,

Unit Owning

Development Research Group (DECRG); Social Protection (SASSP)

Version Type

Final

Series Name

Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 6003;

Product Line

Economic and Sector Work

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Dutta,Puja Vasudeva; Murgai,Rinku; Ravallion,Martin; Van De Walle,Dominique.

Does India's employment guarantee scheme guarantee employment ? (English). Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 6003 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/464991468051015810

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