The effect of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act on the size of outstanding debts in rural India

被引：2
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作者：
Patwardhan, Sharvari [1 ]
Tasciotti, Luca [2 ]
机构：
[1] Int Food Policy Res Inst IFPRI, New Delhi, India
[2] Univ Greenwich, Dept Int Business & Econ, London, England
来源：
JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT EFFECTIVENESS | 2023年 / 15卷 / 04期
关键词：
MGNREGA; India; household debt; household level data; MGNREGA; IMPACT;
D O I：
10.1080/19439342.2022.2103169
中图分类号：
F0 [经济学]; F1 [世界各国经济概况、经济史、经济地理]; C [社会科学总论];
学科分类号：
0201 ; 020105 ; 03 ; 0303 ;
摘要：
MGNREGA was introduced in India in 2005 with the aim to improve the livelihood of rural Indian households. In 2012-13, around 156 million rural Indian households had an outstanding personal debt; 85% of the amount of credit being disbursed was given to those households in the bottom income decile for 'non-business' related purposes. This paper uses nationally representative household data from the NSS EUS collected in 2004-05 and 2009-10 to look at the impact MGNREGA has had on the rural households' ability to repay outstanding debt. Results suggests that MGNREGA reduced the size of the outstanding debts for vulnerable households.
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页码：353 / 372
页数：20
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