We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Social welfare through guaranteed wage employment: experience of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in an Indian state.
- Authors
Swain, PranayaKumar; Ray, Sthitapragyan
- Abstract
Recognition of the significance of public wage employment programmes in tackling unpredictable community “covariate” shocks and ensuring livelihood security of the rural poor has led to the enactment of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, with state guarantee of work. Implementation of the Act, our empirical findings tell us, has become the site of tangible exchanges between state and society, with factors such as the level of material support for it, the balance of power between the local state and the poor on the ground, and the larger socio-economic structure determining programme outcomes.
- Subjects
INDIA; NATIONAL Rural Employment Generation Scheme (India); PUBLIC welfare; GUARANTEED annual wage; SOCIAL problems; MINIMUM wage
- Publication
Journal of International & Comparative Social Policy, 2013, Vol 29, Issue 1, p79
- ISSN
2169-9763
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/21699763.2013.809665