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

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 fo...

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Autores principales: Patwardhan, Sharvari, Tasciotti, Luca
Formato: Journal Article
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Informa UK Limited 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/139966

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