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Introduction to e-Symposium: 10 years of MNREGA and the way forward Farzana Afridi
Topics: Jobs , Poverty & Inequality
Posted on: 14 Mar 2016 India’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme – the largest public works programme in the world – completed a decade in February 2016. As a contribution to the discussions, I4I Editor Farzana Afridi is hosting an e-symposium to summarise the existing evidence on various aspects of the programme, and to discuss the future of the programme.
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MNREGA’s impact on rural labour markets
Laura
Zimmermann
Topics:
Poverty & Inequality
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Infrastructure
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Agriculture
Posted on:
14 Mar 2016
In this article, Laura Zimmermann, Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Georgia, provides an overview of the research on the impact of the initial phase of MNREGA on rural labour markets in India. The evidence suggests that the programme has served as an important short- and long-term safety net, and has had some employment generation effects during the agricultural off-season. However, the effect on rural casual wages is less clear.
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MNREGA and its assets
Sudha
Narayanan
Topics:
Infrastructure
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Poverty & Inequality
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Agriculture
Posted on:
15 Mar 2016
Critics of MNREGA believe that the programme is a dole to dig a hole and hence, a huge waste of resources and that it would be better to simply provide cash. In this article, Sudha Narayanan, Associate Professor at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, argues that evidence from various states on the quality of MNREGA assets suggests that this ‘dole-hole’ view of is largely unfounded.
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MNREGA: Vision and reality
Martin
Ravallion
Topics:
Corruption
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Jobs
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Poverty & Inequality
Posted on:
16 Mar 2016
In this article, Martin Ravallion, Professor of Economics at Georgetown University, contends that the main proximate reason for MNREGA’s disappointing performance is that many people in poor areas of rural India who want work under the scheme have not been able to get it. To match the reality of MNREGA with its grand vision, poor people need to be made more aware of their rights and entitlements under the scheme, and the supply side needs to be more responsive.
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MNREGA, 10 years on: Glass half-full or half-empty?
Kunal
Sen
Topics:
Poverty & Inequality
Posted on:
18 Mar 2016
In this article, Kunal Sen, Professor of Development Economics and Policy at the University of Manchester, evaluates whether MNREGA has achieved its broader development objectives. He further analyses why the programme’s implementation has been challenging, and what the implications of weak implementation have been for its objectives.
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Afterword: What lies ahead for MNREGA?
Farzana
Afridi
Topics:
Poverty & Inequality
Posted on:
18 Mar 2016
In an afterword to the e-symposium on ‘10 years of MNREGA and the way forward’, I4I Editor Farzana Afridi contends that the evidence summarised in the e-symposium suggests that MNREGA is not merely a poverty alleviation programme. Given its multiple potential benefits, MNREGA needs more than mere lip service or it risks dwindling into irrelevance.
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