Guaranteed employment or guaranteed income?
The paper critically reviews the arguments for and against both employment guarantees and income guarantees when viewed as rights-based policy instruments for poverty reduction in a developing economy,
National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA)
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Guaranteed employment or guaranteed income?
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Ecosystems, poverty alleviation and conditional transfers
Social conditional transfers (CTs) and payments for ecosystem services (PES) have the same starting point: the assumption that direct, conditional incentives are the most effective way to change behaviour.
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India’s Mahatma Gandhi Guaranteed Employment programme
The world’s largest works-based social protection scheme, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) has covered all of India since 2006 and aims at enhancing livelihood security
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Can social safety nets protect public health? The effect of India's workfare and foodgrain subsidy programmes on anaemia
Can large-scale social safety nets be nutrition sensitive even if they do not explicitly incorporate health and nutrition as programmatic goals? This paper focuses on the consequences of a countrywide
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Question raised in Lok Sabha on Poverty Eradication Programmes, 03/08/2017
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Poverty Eradication Programmes, 03/08/2017. Report on 5th Annual Employment–Unemployment Survey (2015-16), based on sample study of 88,783 rural households, reports that
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Farm loan waiver 'temporarily necessary': MS Swaminathan
NEW DELHI: Farm loan waiver is necessary in the short term as farmers are unable to repay debts due to fall in agri-prices despite a bumper crop, renowned agriculture scientist MS Swaminathan has said.
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Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Release of MGNREGA funds to drought hit states, 20/03/2017
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Release of MGNREGA funds to drought hit states, 20/03/2017. The details of drought declared by various states is at Annexure. The Government approved the provision of
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Institutional versus noninstitutional credit to agricultural households in India: evidence on impact from a national farmers’ survey
A goal of agricultural policy in India has been to reduce farmers’ dependence on informal credit. To that end, recent initiatives have been focused explicitly on rural areas and have had a positive impact
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Union Budget 2017: Big focus is on rural housing, says Mohandas Pai
The Budget is a political one with a focus on farmers, rural area, on the poor, on women, on infrastructure, on digital economy and bringing in good governance. The Budget is a political one with a