Workfare as an Effective Way to Fight Poverty: The Case of India's NREGS

By Shamika Ravi, Monika Engler. 2015

163 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/7ef616573210ad77afb89d8aef76515708861f9a

Citations in the corpus

• Direct and Indirect Effects of Malawi's Public Works Program on Food Security (2015, unknown): “Malawi’s PWP ranks fourth in population covered among all such programs in low- and middle-income countries (World Bank 2015). We use a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the program, and to test the hypothesis that changes to the timing of the program could increase its effect on food security”
• Welfare and Poverty Impacts of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme: Evidence from Andhra Pradesh (2013, unknown): “The results from simple DDD and DDD plus PSM, as reported in the top panel of Table 4, point toward significant and positive medium-term impact of NREGS participation on consumption expenditure and asset accumulation.”