Does workfare work? India's employment guarantee during COVID-19

As many other countries, India leverages on a pre-existing workfare programme as a COVID-19 response. We combine monthly administrative data with migration and poverty statistics and provide four insights on the recent expansion of the programme. First, poorer districts include more households, that...

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Main Authors: Narayanan, Sudha, Oldiges, Christian, Saha, Shree
Format: Journal Article
Language:Inglés
Published: Wiley 2022
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/141382

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