00994pab a2200169 454500008004000000100001800040245009800058260000900156300001600165362001100181520051800192650002000710650002300730650001500753700002200768773003400790180718b2005   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aMurgai, Rinku  aEmployment guarantee in rural India: what would it cost and how much would it reduce poverty?  c2005  ap.3450-455.  a30 Jul  aThis article assesses the impact on poverty and the likely cost of an employment guarantee scheme providing 100 days of work to the rural people during the lean season. At the current statutory wage rate, the scheme may help reduce rural poverty to 23 per cent (30 percent year round), at a cost of 1.7 per cent of GDP. But, given the extra cost of the scheme, a greater impact on poverty would be achieved by taking the same fiscal outlay and allocating it equally to everyone, whether poor or not. - Reproduced.  aPoverty - India  aEmployment - India  aEmployment  aRavallion, Martin  aEconomic and Political Weekly