-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
- uristled.ru on Links round-up
- Duncan Green on Links round-up
- Stephen Porter on Links round-up
- James Crawford on Should policy seek to promote small firms or large ones in Africa?
- am on Ethics in Development Economics
Categories
Archives
Tag Archives: Infrastructure
NREGA and rural welfare in India
In the evaluation of social programs, the first order concern is their effect on beneficiaries. However, there is a growing awareness about “spillovers” or “peer effects”, which could affect non-beneficiaries. In Mexican villages where PROGRESA cash transfers were implemented, … Continue reading
Posted in Institutions and Growth, Jobs, Finance and Skills, Policies to Protect the Poor
Tagged Infrastructure, Labour, Markets, Rural
Comments Off on NREGA and rural welfare in India
Can large-scale public works programmes push up wages?
Most of the world’s poor live in rural areas, and at the bottom of the pyramid are landless workers subsisting on casual wage labour in agriculture. Policies that can put upward pressure on agricultural wages are therefore likely to be … Continue reading
Posted in Jobs, Finance and Skills, Policies to Protect the Poor
Tagged Agriculture, Infrastructure, Labour, Markets
Comments Off on Can large-scale public works programmes push up wages?