Welfare and Poverty Impacts of Indias National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
Title | Welfare and Poverty Impacts of Indias National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme PDF eBook |
Author | Klaus Deininger |
Publisher | Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 2013-09-13 |
Genre | Social Science |
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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.
Welfare and Poverty Impacts of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme: Evidence from Andhra Pradesh
Title | Welfare and Poverty Impacts of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme: Evidence from Andhra Pradesh PDF eBook |
Author | Klaus Deininger |
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Release | 2015 |
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Welfare and Poverty Impacts of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
Title | Welfare and Poverty Impacts of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme PDF eBook |
Author | Klaus Deininger |
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Pages | 0 |
Release | 2017 |
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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.
Employment Guarantee Programme and Dynamics of Rural Transformation in India
Title | Employment Guarantee Programme and Dynamics of Rural Transformation in India PDF eBook |
Author | Madhusudan Bhattarai |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 2018-06-08 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9811062625 |
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.
Evaluating Workfare When the Work is Unpleasant
Title | Evaluating Workfare When the Work is Unpleasant PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur Alik-Lagrange |
Publisher | |
Pages | 30 |
Release | 2017 |
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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.
National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
Title | National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme PDF eBook |
Author | Duggani Subramanyam |
Publisher | LAP Lambert Academic Publishing |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2015-02-10 |
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ISBN | 9783659328725 |
Impact Of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme On Income And Employment Of Rural Households: A Case Study In Chittoor District Of Andhra Pradesh In Indian rural scenario, the problem of poverty and unemployment have always been and still continued to attract the attention of our policy makers. The pace of development among different states of the country and within the state among different districts has not been uniform, because there are not only regional differences, but also the divide appears to be ever widening. There are still districts which are lacking basic infrastructure facilities and employment opportunities. These districts, reports of starvation deaths from time to time and massive migration of labour. It is therefore quite imperative that such of the districts should be identified and sincere attempts have been made to bring them out on par with other developed districts. Several strategies have tried to find out a workable solution for achieving the phased regional development
The Political Economy of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme Spending in Andhra Pradesh
Title | The Political Economy of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme Spending in Andhra Pradesh PDF eBook |
Author | Megan Sheahan |
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Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014 |
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While government spending on pro-poor community asset creation and income-transfers could have compounding positive effects on poverty reduction, it is important to first study trends in the allocation of funds, particularly as they relate to the susceptibility of the program to political clientelism. This paper uses expenditure data at the local level in Andhra Pradesh from India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, a rights-based program distributing both public and private goods, to investigate the relationship between voting outcomes and program intensity in the seven years straddling a major election. By focusing on one state where accountability and transparency mechanisms have been employed and implementation efforts have been applauded, the authors do not find evidence of blatant vote buying before the 2009 election but do find that patronage played a small part in fund distribution after the 2009 election. Indeed most variation in expenditures is explained by the observed needs of potential beneficiaries, as the scheme intended.