Is There a Case for the Employment Guarantee Scheme in India? Some Recent Evidence
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Keywords
Participation; transfer and stabilsation benefits; backward regions; poverty.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D3 - Microeconomics - - Distribution
- H53 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs
- I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
- J45 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Public Sector Labor Markets
- J78 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Public Policy (including comparable worth)
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CWA-2004-09-12 (Central and Western Asia)
- NEP-EDU-2004-09-12 (Education)
- NEP-IAS-2004-09-12 (Insurance Economics)
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