Preferential resource allocation? Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in Andhra Pradesh
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Date of publication
Diciembre 2013
ISBN / Resource ID
128481
Pages
4 pages
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India’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) employs about 50 million men and women every year and offers an important opportunity for in-vestigating the link between public works spending and the politi-cal allocation of funds. First of all, MGNREGS is derived from the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), which grants citizens the “right to work” on local in-frastructure projects at a set minimum wage.