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Coupling a ladder to the safety net: reinventing MGNREGA for asset creation

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  • Sandeep Tambe
  • Nima Tashi Bhutia
  • Sarika Pradhan
  • Jigme Basi

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India’s rural employment act (MGNREGA), the world’s largest public works programme, is designed to guarantee wage employment as a statutory right. It is viewed by many as a drain on the public exchequer, as wages are paid but durable assets are not created. Can this safety net be restructured to double up as a ladder of opportunity for the poor without altering its entitlement-based framework? This article shows that implementing four sets of interventions – policy for household livelihood assets, convergence approaches, pro-poor participatory planning, and strengthening accountability, can accelerate the creation of livelihood assets in the lands of the poor.

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  • Sandeep Tambe & Nima Tashi Bhutia & Sarika Pradhan & Jigme Basi, 2019. "Coupling a ladder to the safety net: reinventing MGNREGA for asset creation," Development in Practice, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 29(4), pages 514-524, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cdipxx:v:29:y:2019:i:4:p:514-524
    DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2019.1567687
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