TY - BOOK AU - Pankaj,Ashok TI - Right to work and rural India: working of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) SN - 9788132108993 (hbk.) AV - HD5710.85.I4 R54 2012 U1 - 331.011 RIG 23 PY - 2012/// CY - New Delhi, Thousand Oaks PB - SAGE KW - India KW - National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 KW - Manpower policy, Rural KW - Guaranteed annual income KW - Job security KW - Right to labor KW - Rural poor KW - Employment N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Machine generated contents note: SECTION I Introduction 1.Guaranteeing Right to Work in Rural India: Context, Issues and Policies /​ Ashok K. Pankaj SECTION II MGNREGS: Alleviating Poverty through Employment Generation 2.MGNREGS: A Component of Full-employment Strategy for India /​ Indira Hirway 3.Interpreting the Right to Work: What Relevance for Poverty Reduction? /​ Gerry Rodgers 4.Which Way to Reduce Poverty: Cash Transfers or Employment Guarantee Scheme? /​ Diana Alarcon SECTION III Working of the MGNREGS: Regional Variations in Implementation and Impact 5.Demand and Delivery Gap: A Case for Strengthening Grass-roots Institutions in Bihar and Jharkhand /​ Ashok K. Pankaj 6.Working of the Employment Guarantee Scheme in Rajasthan: Some Grass-roots Experiences /​ K. N. Joshi 7.MGNREGS in Andhra Pradesh: Examining the Role of State-enabled Institutions /​ E. Revathi Contents note continued: 8.Employment Guarantee Scheme in Punjab: A Case Study of Hoshiarpur District /​ Parvinder Kaur Dua SECTION IV MGNREGS and Agents of Rural Transformation 9.Assets Creation and Local Economy under MGNREGS: Scope and Challenges /​ Amita Shah 10.MGNREGS and its Effects on Agriculture: Exploring Linkages /​ T. Haque 11.MGNREGS and Indian Agriculture: Opportunities and Challenges /​ D. Narshimha Reddy 12.Empowerment Effects of the MGNREGS on Women Workers /​ Rukmini Tankha SECTION V Prospects 13.Overcoming the Governance Challenges of Implementing MGNREGA? Insight from Bihar Using Process-Influence-Mapping /​ Eva Schiffer 14.MGNREGA and Rural Governance Reform: Growth with Inclusion through Panchayats /​ Pramathesh Ambasta UR - http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book239548 ER -