Overview
- Examines the performance of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) at the macro and micro level and assesses its heterogeneous impacts at different scales
- Analyzes the policy provisions, implementation and monitoring mechanism of MGNREGA, and argues that policy designs with legally enforceable mechanisms and collaborative governance systems can help to empower marginalized sections of society
- Addresses issues such as employment and income generation, labour market impact, asset creation, and female empowerment at the national and state levels
Part of the book series: India Studies in Business and Economics (ISBE)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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MGNREGA: Macro Perspectives and Analysis
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MGNREGA: State Level Experiences and Outcomes
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MGNREGA: Micro Level Case Studies
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MGNREGA: Governance Challenges and It’s Future Perspectives
Editors and Affiliations
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P.K. Viswanathan is a professor (economics) at the Amrita School of Business, Amrita University, Kochi, India. He has a PhD in Economics from the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, India. His research and teaching interests relate to the economics of natural resources management; agrarian transformation and rural livelihoods; aspects of technology, institutions, policies and governance; climate change impacts on natural resources, environment and agriculture; conservation of biodiversity and ecosystems; sustainable energy policy; globalization and its impacts on agriculture and trade; and welfare impacts of trade certifications in India’s plantation sector.
Rudra N. Mishra is an assistant professor at the Gujarat Institute of Development Research (GIDR), Ahmedabad, India since 2007. He obtained his PhD from the Centre for Development Studies (CDS), Thiruvananthapuram, India. His research and teaching interests relate to poverty analysis, economic analysis of health and nutrition, rural livelihoods, gender analysis, rural labor markets and time allocation, and issues related to tribes. He also teaches topics related to statistics and econometrics, sample surveys and research methodology at GIDR and other academic institutions.
Cynthia Bantilan is a former research program director for the Markets, Institutions Policy Research Program at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), in Hyderabad, India. She has been involved in agricultural and rural development strategy and policy research in India for over 25 years. She also directed the Impact Assessment Program at ICRISAT for the semi-arid tropics globally. She spearheaded innovations implementing key research programs on agricultural markets, institutions and policy using macro and micro/village level studies for sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. She specializes in agricultural research evaluation and impact assessment, strategic analysis, econometrics and agricultural statistics, monitoring and evaluation, analysis of livelihood strategies and development pathways, poverty and income distribution, and applications for decision support and science policy. She has guided the research work of over 100 graduate students.
Before joining ICRISAT, she was an associate professor of economics and statistics at the University of the Philippines at Los Banos. Then, she also served the Philippine government in various capacities: national policy adviser for poverty and income distribution at the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), national adviser on Agricultural Statistics for the Dept. of Agriculture; and principal adviser at the National Statistics Office for 5 years.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Employment Guarantee Programme and Dynamics of Rural Transformation in India
Book Subtitle: Challenges and Opportunities
Editors: Madhusudan Bhattarai, P.K. Viswanathan, Rudra N. Mishra, Cynthia Bantilan
Series Title: India Studies in Business and Economics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6262-9
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-6261-2Published: 20 June 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-3876-2Published: 19 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-6262-9Published: 08 June 2018
Series ISSN: 2198-0012
Series E-ISSN: 2198-0020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXX, 360
Number of Illustrations: 54 b/w illustrations
Topics: Development Economics, Social Policy, Labor Economics, Agricultural Economics, Public Policy