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‘They don’t want to work’ versus ‘they don’t want to provide work’: seeking explanations for the decline of MGNREGA in Rajasthan
Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, 2014The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) is a public works programme that guarantees 100 days of employment as a right to all rural households in India. This paper presents a political economy explanation for the dramatic decline of MGNREGA in Rajasthan.DocumentGovernance as a global development goal?: setting, measuring and monitoring the Post-2015 Development Agenda
Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, 2014The increasing realisation that governance quality is a fundamental element of long-run development has led to its consideration as a desirable development goal in its own right. This paper provides a framework to set, measure and monitor governance goals in the Post-2015 Development Agenda.DocumentMothers’ Agency in Managing Breastfeeding and Other Work in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and New Delhi, India
Collegium for Development Studies, University of Uppsala, 2015Combining breastfeeding and other forms of work is desirable from both public health and labour productivity perspectives. This is often challenging, especially in low- or middle-income fast-growing urban settings.DocumentPolitics, informality and clientelism – exploring a pro-poor urban politics
Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, 2014This paper explores what has been learnt about how to instigate, negotiate or otherwise secure pro-poor government in towns and cities of the global South. The paper explains that with competition for scarce resources, the processes of urban development, and specifically the acquisition of land and basic services, are intensely political.DocumentIdeas, interests and the politics of development change in India: capitalism, inclusion and the state
Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, 2014India’s democracy often seems caught between widespread demands for change and resilience to rapid change. This paper offers an interpretation of India’s recent political economy in relation to the longer-term history since independence.DocumentThe National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in Rajasthan: rationed funds and their allocation across villages
Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, 2015The performance of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in Rajasthan, India, has been a matter of debate, both for its remarkable performance in the initial years of the scheme, but also for the relative sharp decline after 2010.DocumentLocal funds and political competition: evidence from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in India
Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, 2014The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in India is a public employment programmes that was introduced by the central government led by Indian National Congress (INC). NREGS implementation is supposed to be based on demand for work from households.DocumentClass politics and social protection: the implementation of India’s MGNREGA
Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, 2015This paper directs attention to the role of class politics in shaping the outcomes of social protection interventions. Particularly, the paper demonstrates the ways in which variations in class politics influence outcomes of a large social protection programme in India, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA).DocumentThe political economy of economic growth in India, 1993-2013
Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, 2014This paper examines the political and institutional causes of India’s growth acceleration and its possible end. The paper argues that India’s post-reform growth experience can be separated into three distinct growth episodes. The first growth episode was characterised by a set of predictable informal relationships between political and economic elites.DocumentIndia’s megacities and climate change: explorations from Delhi and Mumbai
STEPS Centre, Institute of Development Studies, 2015This working paper, produced by the Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability (STEPS) centre, concerns a study of climate change discourse in urban India, with a focus on the mega-cities of Dehli and Mumbai.Pages