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Supply or demand ? How politics influences the implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi national rural employment guarantee act in Rajasthan

Himanshu, ...; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Chaudhuri, Basudeb (2017), Supply or demand ? How politics influences the implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi national rural employment guarantee act in Rajasthan, NOPOOR Policy Brief, 39, p. 8. https://basepub.dauphine.fr/handle/123456789/18161

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Rapport
Date
2017
Series title
NOPOOR Policy Brief
Series number
39
Pages
8
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Himanshu, ...

Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop

Chaudhuri, Basudeb
Abstract (EN)
The drop in expenditures under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) between 2011 and 2015 does not reflect satiation of demand for work. Supply-side factors play an important role in limiting the amount of work available. This dilutes the key objective of the Act – that those in need of work will be guaranteed it. In light of the supply-side rather than demand-based nature of MGNREGA, “discouraged” workers are more likely to wait for work to be provided than actively register demand for it.
Subjects / Keywords
CCT; MGNREGS
JEL
J4 - Particular Labor Markets