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Abstract :
[en] The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act is India's (and the world's) largest employment programme. While many analysis exist on its impact and implementation faults, scant attention has been dedicated to how political dynamics influence its implementation. This paper will try to fill this gap with evidence from the southern state of Andhra Pradesh. It will argue that the implementation performance of the programme has been fairly good, despite the abysmal performance of the state government with previous employment programmes. The key factor in determining such a shift was the political commitment of the state’s chief minister.
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