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Experience of the Maharashtra Employment Guarantee Scheme: are there lessons for NREGS?

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  • Amita Shah
  • Aasha Kapur Mehta

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This paper notes that while the NREGS has potential to reduce the intensity of poverty for the large mass of rural poor, the number of days of work provided and the level of the wage rate remain critical determinants of whether or not this can provide an escape route out of poverty for those who are able to work. [Working Paper No. 41]

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  • Amita Shah & Aasha Kapur Mehta, 2010. "Experience of the Maharashtra Employment Guarantee Scheme: are there lessons for NREGS?," Working Papers id:2774, eSocialSciences.
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    1. Planning Commission, 2006. "An Approach to the 11th Five Year Plan: Towards Faster and More Inclusive Growth," Working Papers id:569, eSocialSciences.
    2. Herring, Ronald J. & Edwards, Rex M., 1983. "Guaranteeing employment to the rural poor: Social functions and class interests in the employment guarantee scheme in Western India," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 11(7), pages 575-592, July.
    3. Raghav Gaiha, 1996. "How dependent are the rural poor on the employment guarantee scheme in India?," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 32(5), pages 669-694.
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