01045pab a2200193 454500 180718b2005 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Murgai, Rinku Employment guarantee in rural India: what would it cost and how much would it reduce poverty? 2005 p.3450-455. 30 Jul This 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. Poverty - India Employment - India Employment Ravallion, Martin Economic and Political Weekly 66481 66481 66481 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 40, Issue no: 31 AR66933 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR