Rights-based Legal Guarantee as Development Policy: The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act

Amita Sharma

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Abstract: This paper analyses the legal framework and policy innovations undertaken towards achieving the stated objectives of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act. This paper seeks to critically examine the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (Mahatma Gandhi NREGA) as a rights-based legal framework for guaranteeing basic livelihood security to rural households. The main concern of the paper is to examine the legal design and policy innovations and the extent to which they facilitate the fulfilment of the objectives of the Act. The issues discussed in the context of Mahatma Gandhi NREGA as a rights-based law may be pertinent to policy formulation in other development contexts.

Keywords: right-based; legal; development policy; MGNREGA; Act; legal framework; policy innovations; livelihood security; wage employment; pro-poor; rural development; rights; law and development; trends and outcomes; policy innovations; India; rural households; work; employment; skilled and unskilled work. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-09
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