The employment guarantee scheme as a social safety net: poverty dynamics and poverty alleviation

This paper investigates the dynamic aspects of poverty and anti-poverty interventions, particularly focusing on promotional effects, i.e., the effects of helping the poor escape poverty and protective effects, i.e., the effects of preventing the non-poor from slipping into poverty. We test the effec...

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Main Author: Imai, K
Format: Working paper
Published: University of Oxford 2003