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Do Gram Panchayat leaders favour their own constituencies in MNREGA fund allocation?

By Dr Subhasish Dey and Prof Kunal Sen 3 January 2017* Political incentives are known to play a role in the allocation

Is partisan alignment electorally rewarding? Evidence from village council elections in India

Working paper 63 Download pdf Subhasish Dey and Kunal Sen Do ruling parties positively discriminate in favour of their own

Spotlight on Subhasish Dey

  23 May 2016   Subhasish completed his PhD at The University of Manchester in January 2016. He is an

MNREGA, India's Rural Employment Guarantee – 10 years on

    22 March 2016 Professor Kunal Sen     For the tenth anniversary of  MNREGA, our Research Director, Professor

Spotlight on an ESID researcher: Indrajit Roy

17 February 2016 What is your educational background? My first degree was in history, from the University of Delhi. Then

Political commitment in India’s social policy implementation: Shaping the performance of MGNREGA

Working paper 50 Download pdf Deepta Chopra Abstract This paper contributes to the empirical understanding of the concept of commitment

Dr Subhasish Dey

Role Subhasish is Senior Teaching Fellow in the Department of Economics at The University of Warwick. He is  a Research

Class politics and social protection: the implementation of India’s MGNREGA

Working Paper 46 Download pdf Indrajit Roy Abstract In this paper, I direct attention to the role of class politics

How commitment and class relations shape MGNREGA implementation in India

Briefing No. 11 Employment outcomes for MGNREGA vary significantly across states, despite similar implementation mechanisms. Research indicates that MGNREGA implementation

Is NREGA reaching its end?

19 January 2015 [29 December 2014, original post]. By Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay. Is the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in Rajasthan: Rationed funds and their allocation across villages

Working paper 35 Download pdf Himanshu, Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay and M. R. Sharan Abstract The performance of the National Rural Employment

Local funds and political competition: Evidence from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in India

Working paper 42 Download pdf Bhanu Gupta and Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay Abstract The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in India

Briefing Paper: Discriminatory politics and MGNREGA implementation in Rajasthan

21 July 2014. ESID's latest Briefing Paper is entitled 'Supply or demand? How politics influences the implementation of the MGNREGA

Supply or demand? How politics influences the implementation of the MGNREGA in Rajasthan

Briefing No. 6 The recent performance of MGNREGA has been a matter of debate. Rajasthan, especially, performed impressively in the initial years

Upcoming event (India): Understanding success and failure of guaranteed employment schemes

Delhi, 3ie - International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 21 July 2014. "Explaining success, understanding failure in the implementation of the

‘They don’t want to work’ versus ‘They don’t want to provide work’: Seeking explanations for the decline of MGNREGA in Rajasthan’

16 July 2014. ESID's latest working paper explores the reasons behind the sharp decline in MGNREGA implementation in the Indian

Dr Deepta Chopra

Role Deepta Chopra is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS). She is involved with ESID on

‘They don’t want to work’ versus ‘They don’t want to provide work’: Seeking explanations for the decline of MGNREGA in Rajasthan

Working paper 31 Download pdf Deepta Chopra This paper presents a political economy explanation for the dramatic decline of MGNREGA

Staff spotlight: Kunal Sen

5 June 2014. Kunal Sen is ESID’s Joint Research Director, along with Sam Hickey. Professor of Development Economics at the

Dr Indrajit Roy

Role Indrajit Roy is an ESRC Future Research Leader at the Department for International Development at the University of Oxford. He

Have newly created Indian states promoted inclusive development? A comparison of Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh

Objectives This project aims to bridge a gap in the understanding of differing development performance of newly created states, through

New Delhi Workshop: Politics Shapes MGNREGA Implementation in India

5 March 2014. On January 22nd the India International Centre of New Delhi hosted a workshop presenting the findings of