Local Funds and Political Competition: Evidence from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in India
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- Gupta, Bhanu & Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop, 2016. "Local funds and political competition: Evidence from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in India," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, vol. 41(C), pages 14-30.
- Bhanu Gupta & Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay, 2014. "Local funds and political competition: Evidence from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in India," Global Development Institute Working Paper Series esid-042-14, GDI, The University of Manchester.
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Keywords
local elections; National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme; political economy;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- J08 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - General - - - Labor Economics Policies
- H53 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs
- H75 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Government: Health, Education, and Welfare
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2014-06-02 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-POL-2014-06-02 (Positive Political Economics)
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