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Right to Work? Assessing India's Employment Guarantee Scheme in Bihar

India’s 2005 National Rural Employment Guarantee Act creates a justiciable 'right to work' by promising up to 100 days of wage employment per year to all rural households whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work. Work is provided in public works projects at the stipulated...

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Main Authors: Dutta, Puja, Murgai, Rinku, Ravallion, Martin, van de Walle, Dominique
Language:en_US
Published: Washington, DC: World Bank 2014
Subjects:
awareness campaign
Bihar
foregone income
MGNREGS
Mahadalits
poverty reduction
public employment
public works
workfare
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17195

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