A consensus unravels: NREGA and the paradox of rules-based welfare in India
<p>The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) was launched in India in 2006, and a widespread view is emerging that though flawed the NREGA has been successful in providing employment to the poorest. There was wide agreement among scholars before 2006 that India would not be able to...
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| description | <p>The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) was launched in India in 2006, and a widespread view is emerging that though flawed the NREGA has been successful in providing employment to the poorest. There was wide agreement among scholars before 2006 that India would not be able to promote such a regime of rules-based welfare and that schemes providing targeted patronage, open to political and bureaucratic manipulation and clientelism, would continue to be the norm. This article confirms that the NREGA was indeed a paradox and constructs a number of hypotheses using a political economy framework to explain it.</p> |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:0a149c99-a910-4b72-b121-39ede128e7542022-03-26T09:21:48ZA consensus unravels: NREGA and the paradox of rules-based welfare in IndiaJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:0a149c99-a910-4b72-b121-39ede128e754Symplectic Elements at OxfordPalgrave Macmillan2016McCartney, MRoy, IMcCartney, M <p>The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) was launched in India in 2006, and a widespread view is emerging that though flawed the NREGA has been successful in providing employment to the poorest. There was wide agreement among scholars before 2006 that India would not be able to promote such a regime of rules-based welfare and that schemes providing targeted patronage, open to political and bureaucratic manipulation and clientelism, would continue to be the norm. This article confirms that the NREGA was indeed a paradox and constructs a number of hypotheses using a political economy framework to explain it.</p> |
| spellingShingle | McCartney, M Roy, I McCartney, M A consensus unravels: NREGA and the paradox of rules-based welfare in India |
| title | A consensus unravels: NREGA and the paradox of rules-based welfare in India |
| title_full | A consensus unravels: NREGA and the paradox of rules-based welfare in India |
| title_fullStr | A consensus unravels: NREGA and the paradox of rules-based welfare in India |
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| title_short | A consensus unravels: NREGA and the paradox of rules-based welfare in India |
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