Social Empowerment an Unintended Consequence

Ashok Pankaj ()
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Ashok Pankaj: Council for Social Development

Chapter Chapter 7 in Inclusive Development Through Guaranteed Employment, 2023, pp 147-170 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The statement of the objects of the MGNREGA explains the goal of empowering rural poor through entitlement-based employment. Working of the Act demonstrates visible and invisible, subtle and substantive social empowerment effects, which have been explained as enhanced social security, liberating effects of lean season employment, loosening hinges of monopsonic rural labour market, workers-favourable impacts on labour market, reduction in borrowing and distress migration, political capacity building of the poor, women’s empowerment.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-7443-6_7

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