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Employment Guarantee Programme and Dynamics of Rural Transformation in India

Challenges and Opportunities

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Editors:
  1. Madhusudan Bhattarai

    1. Jalsrot Vikas Sanstha (JVS), Kathmandu, Nepal

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  2. P.K. Viswanathan

    1. Amrita School of Business, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (Deemed to be University), Kochi, India

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  3. Rudra N. Mishra

    1. Gujarat Institute of Development Research, Ahmedabad, India

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  4. Cynthia Bantilan

    1. Research Program on Markets, Institutions and Policy, ICRISAT, Hyderabad, India

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  • 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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxx
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  2. Introduction

    • Madhusudan Bhattarai, P.K. Viswanathan
    Pages 1-28

  3. MGNREGA: Macro Perspectives and Analysis

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29
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    2. Employment Generation Under MGNREGA: Spatial and Temporal Performance Across States

      • Parmod Kumar
      Pages 31-70

    3. MGNREGS Implementations and the Dynamics of Rural Labour Markets

      • D. Narasimha Reddy, A. Amarender Reddy, Madhusudan Bhattarai, N. Nagaraj, Cynthia Bantilan
      Pages 71-101

    4. Beyond Digging and Filling Holes: Maximizing the Net Positive Impact of MGNREGA

      • Shilp Verma, Tushaar Shah
      Pages 103-130

    5. Has Profitability of Foodgrain Production Declined After Implementation of MGNREGS in India?

      • A. Narayanamoorthy, Madhusudan Bhattarai, R. Suresh
      Pages 131-152

  4. MGNREGA: State Level Experiences and Outcomes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153
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    2. From EGS to MGNREGS in Maharashtra: Were the Programme Potentials Achieved?

      • Jayanti Kajale, Sangeeta Shroff
      Pages 155-173

    3. Asset Creation Under MGNREGA and Sustainable Agriculture Growth: Impacts of Convergence Initiatives in Odisha and West Bengal

      • Pulak Mishra, Saswat Kishore Mishra
      Pages 175-198

    4. MGNREGS: Political Economy, Local Governance and Asset Creation in South India

      • Vinoj Abraham
      Pages 199-223

    5. MGNREGA and Inclusive Development: A Case Study in Tripura, Northeast India

      • Indraneel Bhowmik, Pritam Bose, Samrat Goswami, Pradip Chouhan
      Pages 225-242

  5. MGNREGA: Micro Level Case Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 243-243
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    2. Inter-sectoral Linkages and Multipliers of MGNREGA in a Rainfed Village in Karnataka: Applications of Social Accounting Matrix (SAM)

      • Gourav Kumar Vani, P. S. Srikantha Murthy, Madhusudan Bhattarai
      Pages 245-263

    3. Economic Impacts of MGNREGA in Dryland Region of India: A Meso and Micro Study in Selected States

      • N. Nagaraj, P.S. Srikantha Murthy, M. G. Chandrakanth, Madhusudan Bhattarai, Namrata Singha Roy
      Pages 265-287

  6. MGNREGA: Governance Challenges and It’s Future Perspectives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 289-289
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    2. Can Employment Guarantee Scheme (EGS) Ensure Inclusive and Resilient Growth in Rainfed Areas: Convergence Lessons Learned and Way Forward

      • Ravindra Adusumilli, Ashima Chaudhary
      Pages 291-305

    3. The Journey of MGNREGA: Changing Approaches and Challenges

      • Amita Shah, Aasha Kapur Mehta, P.K. Viswanathan, Nicky Johnson
      Pages 307-343

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 345-360
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About this book

This book offers an assessment of the performance, impact, and welfare implications of the world’s largest employment guarantee programme, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA). Launched by the Indian government, the programme covers entire rural area of the country. The book presents various micro-level analyses of the programme and its heterogeneous impacts at different scales, almost a decade after its implementation. While there are some doubts over the future of the scheme as well as its magnitude, nature and content, the central government appears committed to it, as a ‘convergence scheme’ of various other welfare and rural development programmes being implemented at both national and state level. The book discusses the outcomes of the programme and offers critical insights into the lessons learnt, not only in the context of India, but also for similar schemes in countries in South and South-East Asia as well as in Africa, and Latin America. Adopting inter-disciplinary perspectives in analysing these issues, this unique book uses a judicious mix of methods---integrating quantitative and qualitative tools---and will be an invaluable resource for analysts, NGOs, policymakers and academics alike.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Jalsrot Vikas Sanstha (JVS), Kathmandu, Nepal

    Madhusudan Bhattarai

  • Amrita School of Business, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (Deemed to be University), Kochi, India

    P.K. Viswanathan

  • Gujarat Institute of Development Research, Ahmedabad, India

    Rudra N. Mishra

  • Research Program on Markets, Institutions and Policy, ICRISAT, Hyderabad, India

    Cynthia Bantilan

About the editors

Madhusudan Bhattarai is a former principal scientist (economist) for the Markets, Institutions and Policies Research Program at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), a CGIAR center, where he coordinated the semi-arid tropic (SAT) India component of the ICRISAT village studies project. He has a PhD in Applied Economics from Clemson University, SC, USA, with specialization in natural resources economics and public policy analysis. After his PhD, he worked for over 15 years at three CGIAR centers and other international development agencies in India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Taiwan, and other countries in Asia. His expertise relates to public policy analysis, the economics of agricultural and rural development programs, natural resources management, rural labor markets, institutional economics, transactional cost analysis, governance analysis, village studies, and social protection programs.


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

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