Employment Guarantee Programme and Pro Poor Growth

Employment Guarantee Programme and Pro Poor Growth

In this book the author argues that a well-designed wage-employment programme, with a guarantee component, cannot only address the immediate problem of ensuring employment and wages to the poor at the bottom, but can also contribute towards promoting pro-poor economic growth.This study builds a village -level social accounting matrix(SAM) to estimate the employment,income and output multiplier impacts of NREGA (National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) works in a village in Gujarat.