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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| author | Patwardhan, Sharvari Tasciotti, Luca |
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| description | 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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| spelling | CGSpace1399662025-10-26T13:01:40Z The effect of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act on the size of outstanding debts in rural India Patwardhan, Sharvari Tasciotti, Luca surveys livelihoods rural areas credit debt 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. 2023-10-02 2024-03-14T12:08:46Z 2024-03-14T12:08:46Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/139966 en Open Access Informa UK Limited Patwardhan, Shavari; and Tasciotti, Luca. 2022. The effect of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act on the size of outstanding debts in rural India. Journal of Development Effectiveness 15(4): 353-372. https://doi.org/10.1080/19439342.2022.2103169 |
| spellingShingle | surveys livelihoods rural areas credit debt Patwardhan, Sharvari Tasciotti, Luca The effect of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act on the size of outstanding debts in rural India |
| title | The effect of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act on the size of outstanding debts in rural India |
| title_full | The effect of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act on the size of outstanding debts in rural India |
| title_fullStr | The effect of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act on the size of outstanding debts in rural India |
| title_full_unstemmed | The effect of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act on the size of outstanding debts in rural India |
| title_short | The effect of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act on the size of outstanding debts in rural India |
| title_sort | effect of the mahatma gandhi national rural employment guarantee act on the size of outstanding debts in rural india |
| topic | surveys livelihoods rural areas credit debt |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/139966 |
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