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| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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Narayan, Swati |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Fifteen years of India’s NREGA: Employer of the last resort? |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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The Indian Journal of Labour Economics |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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65(3), Jul-Sep, 2022: p. 779-799 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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For the last decade, India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA, 2005) has been the world’s largest public works programme. This legal entitlement provided employment to 28 per cent of rural Indian households in 2019–2020. After the COVID-19 pandemic, NREGA is increasingly emerging as an invaluable employer of the last resort. However, longitudinal data of implementation in its first fifteen years reveal distinctive trends. On the one hand, since inception, NREGA has rendered greater benefits to women and marginalised communities. But on the other, since 2014 till before the pandemic, the present National Democratic Alliance (NDA) regime has reduced NREGA coverage compared to its implementation during the previous United Progressive Alliance (UPA) coalition government which had enacted the legislation. Nevertheless, in light of the pandemic and based on international experiences in public work programmes, there is an urgent need for the expansion of the employment guarantee. – Reproduced |
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National rural employment guarantee act, India, Argentina, South Africa, Ethiopia, Employment, Women, Caste, Politics. |
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36621 |
| 773 ## - HOST ITEM ENTRY |
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| Main entry heading |
The Indian Journal of Labour Economics |
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| Subject DIP |
EMPLOYMENT |
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Articles |
