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
Format:	Online
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:	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/17195 https://doi.org/10.1596/978-1-4648-0130-3