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Breaking new ground: women’s employment in India’s NREGA, the pandemic lifeline

31/08/2022

31 pages long

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Breaking new ground: women’s employment in India’s NREGA, the pandemic lifeline

Keywords

Child care
Kerala Kudumbashree
minimum wages
National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA)
Women workers

Overview

India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), in the last 15 years, has evolved as the world’s largest employer of the last resort. This social protection, specifically designed as a demand-driven automatic employment stabiliser to enable households to cope with livelihood shocks, offers 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year to all […]

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