Preferential resource allocation? Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in Andhra Pradesh

Megan Sheahan, Yanyan Liu (), Christopher Barrett and Sudha Narayanan

No 3, Project notes from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: India’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) employs about 50 million men and women every year and offers an important opportunity for in-vestigating the link between public works spending and the politi-cal allocation of funds. First of all, MGNREGS is derived from the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), which grants citizens the “right to work†on local in-frastructure projects at a set minimum wage.

Keywords: economic development; employment; agricultural policies; social protection; infrastructure; poverty; social safety nets; rural areas; India; Southern Asia; Asia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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