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Reframing citizenship by decentralizing development under India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
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Essays on the Externalities of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act of India
… externalities of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) of India. The MGNREGA is an employment guarantee scheme implemented in rural India since 2006 and is the world’s largest public works project. In the first study, I look at the effects of the MGNREGA on crime …
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Employment generation programs and long term development- the case of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
The impact of neo-liberal policies on labor and employment opportunities in developing country like India has been less than satisfactory. The purpose of this dissertation is to study the role of government in employment generation and the impact of employment generation on long term development. …
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Work allocation behaviour in rural Philippines: a bounded rationality model
… developing countries like the Philippines the rural sector in general, and agriculture in particular play a significant role in economic development. Hence, relevant information on the rural workers and rural employment opportunities are necessary conditions for the development of appropriate …
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Co-creating forevers : stories of multi-level governance for implementation of rural development projects in India
… wage payments in the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in Andhra and Telangana, India. Theoretically, I begin by looking at Stoker's propositions of the characteristics of a governance system, Ostrom's idea of a socio-ecological system, within which governance …
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Market participation of commercial Black farmers in Gauteng Province, South Africa.
… Black farmers as a mechanism contributor in rural employment and income generation. In South Africa, most commercial Black farmers are characterised by poor market participation through lack of land ownership and as a result, reduced investment on farming business. The objectives of this …
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A comparative study of rural Virginia farm and non farm household labor supply
This study compares rural Virginia two-adult farm and non-farm household labor supply on two levels: (1) labor market participation and (2) variations in labor supply to the market and to the home. The study develops three models: a selection model, a wage rate model, and a labor supply model. …
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Essays On Local Governance In India
… the poor in the context of the Indian National Rural Employment Generation Scheme (NREGS), one of the world's largest social welfare program. Exploiting changes in caste representation driven by India's reservation system intended to increase minority caste representation, I show that minority …
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Beyond market failures : irrigation, the state, and non-traditional agricultures in Northeast Brazil
… same time that wages and labor standards among rural wage workers increased without compromising the access of producers to export markets, and in spite of all three regions having received similar heavy government investments in large-scale irrigation infrastructure. Findings show that the …
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Three essays on irrigated agriculture in Brazil
… agricultural productivity rates and increasing employment in rural areas, which generates income and raises food security. Despite its multiple benefits, irrigation adoption in Brazil is still low given the potential for incorporation of new arable land, making the effects of this technology on …
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Mining, dependence, and post-independence urbanisation in Botswana : sustainable development?
… of dependence on the mining sector and external employment opportunities. The reasons for the dearth in diversified productive activity in mining towns in Botswana are related to an externally orientated development policy, with dependence on the world mineral markets. As the mining industry is …
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Women's Healthcare Utilization in Primary and Acute Care Contexts
… recent years, there has been increased focus on rural and Appalachian health because of disparate chronic health outcomes when compared to the rest of the US. Appalachia, a subsection of the US, has even worse health outcomes related to chronic diseases. Although Appalachia is its own unique …
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Impacts of artisanal and large scale gold mining on tropical rivers in West Africa: A case study from the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana
… economic role in providing much needed rural employment. Mercury toxicity to human and environmental health has attracted much of researches, however ASGM impacts on riverine ecology, particularly at biota community levels, remains understudied. This study investigated the impacts of …
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Three essays on the production and investment decisions of households living in rural India
… of these three constraints. In the context of rural India, it analyzes what production and investment decisions households take and how important risk and credit constraints as well as scale effects are in these decisions. Finally, it evaluates potential policy tools that could support …