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Aakella, V. Karuna and Kidambi Sowmya (2007), 'Social Audits in Andhra Pradesh: A
Process in Evaluation', Economic and Political Weekly, 24 November.
Aakella, V. Karuna and Kidambi, Sowmya (2007), 'Challenging Corruption with Social
Audits', Economic and Political Weekly, 3 February.
Acharya, Sankar (2004), 'Bad Ideas Are Winning', Business Standard, 28 December.
Adhikari, A., and Bhatia, K. (2010), 'NREGA Wage Payments: Can we Bank on Banks?',
Economic and Political Weekly, 2 January.
Aiyar, Yamini and Samji, Salimah (2006), 'Improving the Effectiveness of National Rural
Employment Guarantee Act', Economic and Political Weekly, 28 January.
Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability (2006), ‘Draft Report on Implementation
of NREGA in Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Madhya Pradesh',
Report, New Delhi: Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability, May-June.
Centre for Science and Environment (), An Ecological Act: A backgrounder to the National
Employment Guarantee Scheme. New Delhi: Centre for Science and Environment,
available online at http://www.world-governance.org/IMG/pdf_572_-
_NREGA_Briefing_CSE.pdf
Asha Parivar (2006), 'Findings of Social Audit of NREGS in Bharawan and Sandila Blocks
of Hardoi District in U.P. During 25th November - 2nd December'
Asha Parivar (2007), Findings of Social Audit of NREGA in Behendar Block of Hardoi
District.
Bagchee, Aruna (2005), 'Political and Administrative Realities of the EGS', Economic and
Political Weekly, 15 October.
Banerjee, Kaustav and Saha, Partha (2010), 'The NREGA, the Maoists and the development
woes of Indian State', Eocnomic and Political Weekly, 10 July.
Barret, B.C., Holden, S., and Clay, D.C. (2002), 'Can Food-For-Work Programme Reduce
Vulnerability?', Discussion Paper 2002/24, World Institute for Development
Economics Research, Helsinki.
Besley, T., and Coate, S. (1992), 'Workfare vs Welfare: Incentive Arguments for Work
Requirements in Poverty Alleviation Programmes', American Economic Review,
82(1).
Bhaduri, Amit (2005), Development with Dignity: A case for full Employment (New Delhi:
National Book Trust).
Bhalla, Sheila (2005), 'India's Rural Economy: Issues and Evidence', Institute for Human
Development, New Delhi
Bhatia, B., and Drèze, J. (2006), "Employment Guarantee in Jharkand : Ground Realities",
Economic and Political Weekly, 22 July.
Bhatty, Kiran (2006), ‘Employment Guarantee and Child Rights', Economic and Political
Weekly, 20 May.
Bisht, Arvind Singh (2006), 'Rural Employment: No Guarantee Yet', Times of India, 19
February.
Centre for Science and Environment (2008), NREGA: Opportunities and Challenges (New
Delhi: CSE).
Cherian, Thomas (2005), 'Adding jobs but at what cost?', International Herald Tribune, 14
September.
Das, Upasak (2009), 'NREGA: Can It Be Sustained In India?', mimeo, Indira Gandhi Institute
for Development Research, Mumbai.
Das, Upasak (2009), 'Three and a Half Years of NREGA ;A journey Through Some Parts of
Jalpaiguri District', mimeo, Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research,
Mumbai.
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Das, Vidhya, and Pradhan, Pramod (2007), 'Illusions of Change', Economic and Political
Weekly, 11 August.
Dasgupta, Swapan (2008), 'Flawed Job Scheme', The Times of India,10 February.
Dev, S. Mahendra (2002), 'Bold Initiatives Needed on Agriculture and Rural Employment',
Economic and Political Weekly, 23 March.
Dev, S. M., and Ranade, A. (2001), 'Employment Guarantee Scheme and Employment
Security', in Social and Economic Security in India edited by Dev, Anthony, Gayathri,
Mamgain, Institute of Human Development: New Delhi
Dev, S. Mahendra (1996), 'Food Security: PDS vs EGS: A Tale of Two States', Economic
and Political Weekly, 6 June.
Dey, N., Drèze, J., and Khera, R. (2006), Employment Guarantee Act: A Primer (New Delhi:
National Book Trust).
Dey, N., Drèze, J., and Roy, A. (2008), 'Finish the Job', Hindustan Times, 31 January.
Dey, Nikhil, and Roy, Aruna (2009), 'Dalits, Poor and the NREGA', The Hindu, August 27.
Dhuru, Arundhati (2007), 'National Rural Employment Guarantee Act and Mid Day Meal
Scheme Review of Uttar Pradesh'.,…
Drèze, Jean (2005), 'Employment Guarantee and its Discontents', Times of India, 12 August.
Drèze, Jean and Khera, Reetika (2009), ‘The Battle for Employment Guarantee’, Frontline,16
January.
Drèze, Jean, with Kartika Bhatia and Reetika Khera (2009), 'Making NREGA Work', Report
for the National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganized Sector (NCEUS),
New Delhi, April.
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Drèze, Jean, and Khera, Reetika (2008), 'Lok Adalat or Joke Adalat?', The Hindu, 22
February.
Drèze, Jean, and Khera, Reetika (2008), 'From Accounts to Accountability', The Hindu, 6
December.
Drèze, Jean, and Khera, Reetika (2008), 'Uttar Pradesh: On the Move' Hindustan, March.
Drèze, Jean, and Kidambi, Sowmya (2007), 'Long Road to Employment Guarantee', The
Hindu, 2 August.
Drèze, Jean and Lal, Siddhartha (2007), 'Employment Guarantee: Unfinished Agenda', The
Hindu, 13 July.
Drèze, Jean, and Oldiges, Chris (2007), 'Commendable Act', Frontline, 27 July.
Drèze, Jean and Oldiges, Chris (2009), "Work in Progress", Frontline, 14th February
Drèze, Jean (2010), 'Democracy and the Right to Work: India's Employment Guarantee Act',
forthcoming in the Oxford Companion to Politics in India
Drèze, Jean (2006), 'National Employment Guarantee Act Inaction', The Hindu, 12
September
Drèze, Jean (2007), 'India's Employment Guarantee Act: Reclaiming Policy Space', in
Deshpande, A. (ed) ,Globalization and Development (New Delhi :Oxford University
Press).
Drèze, Jean (2007), ‘Dismantling the Contractor Raj', The Hindu, November.
Drèze, Jean (2008), 'NREGA in Dantewada', Report to the Central Employment Guarantee
Council, September.
Drèze, Jean (2009), 'Act Fair, Give Rural Workers Their Due', Times of India,12 July.
Drèze, Jean (2009), 'Employment Guarantee or Slave Labour?', The Hindu, 19 September.
Drèze, J. Khera,R., and Siddhartha (2008), 'Corruption in NREGA: Myths and Realities', The
Hindu, 22 January.
Economic and Political Weekly (2005), Employment Guarantee: Setting Legislation Right'
(2005), Economic and Political Weekly, Volume 40, No. 32, 25 August.
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Employment Guarantee: What can we learn from the Maharashtra Experience?, Conclusions
of the Policy Workshop held at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance,
JNU, Delhi, 4 & 5 April 2005
Gaiha, R. [??]
Gaiha, R., Kulkarni, Pandey and Imai (2009), 'National Rural Employment Guarantee
Poverty and Prices in India', ASARC Working Paper, March.
Ganapathy, Nirmala (2005), 'Rural Employment Bill: World is Watching India', Indian
Express, 1 September.
Ganesh-Kumar, A, Mishra, Sishra, Panda, Manoj (2004), 'Employment Guarantee for Rural
India', Economic and Political Weekly, 18 December.
Ghose, Sagarika (2008), 'The Idiocacy of Urban Thinking', Hindustan Times, 14 February.
Gopal, K.S. (2005), 'Is the Euphoria justified?', Economic and Political Weekly, 15 October.
Gupta, Santanu (2006) 'Were district choice for NFFWP approriate', Journal of Indian School
of Political Economy,…
Indira Hirway and Piet Terhal (1994).‘Towards Employment Guarantee in India: Indian and
International Experiences in Rural Public Works Programme’. New Delhi: Sage
Publications.
Hirway, Indira (2004), ‘Providing Employment Guarantee in India: Some Crititcal Issues’,
Economic and Political Weekly, November 27.
Hirway, Indira (2004), 'Employment Programmes For Protecting the Vulnerable Poor,
Lessons from the Past Experiences in India', paper presented at a National Workshop
on Protecting the Vulnerable Poor in India: The Role of Safety Nets, by World Food
Programme at Delhi, 6-8 October
Imai, Katsushi (2003), ‘The Employment Guarantee Scheme as a Social Safety Net - Poverty
Dynamics and Poverty Alleviation’, Economic Series Working Paper No 149,
Department of Economics, University of Oxford.
Institute of Applied Manpower Research (2009), 'All India Report on Evaluation of NREGA:
A Survey of Twenty Districts', Delhi: Institute of Applied Manpower Resources
Jacob, Arun and Varghese Richard (2006), 'Reasonable Beginning in Palakkad, Kerala',
Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 41, No. 48, 2 December.
Jadhav, Vishal (2006), 'Elite Politics and Maharshtra's Employment Guarantee Scheme',
Economic and Political Weekly,16 December.
Jain, Sonu (2005), 'Rich, Poor, All States are in Job Guarantee Net', Indian Express, 8
December.
Jaswal, Anshuman and Mistry, Paulomee (2007) ‘Diwas Uge Ne Dadi Male, Work Guarantee
Must be as Certain as the Rising of the Sun, Will NREGA Ensure Security Against
Hunger? A Study - Summary Report, by Disha’, Ahmedabad: Disha, available online
at http://www.disha-india.org/Diwas%20Uge%20Ne%20Dadi%20Male.pdf
Johnson, Doug (2009), 'Does NREGA help the rural poor to cope with bad weather?',
Working Paper 32, Institute of Financial Management and Research, Centre for
Microfinance, Chennai.
Johnson, Doug(2009), 'How Do Caste, Gender and Party Affiliation of Locally Elected
Leaders Affect Implementation of NREGA?', Working Paper 33, Institute of
Financial Management and Research, Centre for Microfinance, Chennai.
Joseph, Shaji (2006), 'Power of the people: Political Mobilisation and Guaranteed
Employment', Economic and Political Weekly,16 December.
Kaboub, Fadhel (2007), 'Employment Guarantee Programs:A Survey of Theory and Policy
Experiences', Working paper 498, The Levy institute of Brad College.
Karat, Brinda (2005), 'Towards Implementing the Rural Employment Guarantee Act',
People's Democracy, 16 October.
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Khera, Reetika (2005), 'Employment Guarantee in Maharashtra and India', UNDP report,
regional office Delhi
Khera, R., and Nayak, N. (2009), 'Women Workers and the Perception of the National Rural
Employment Guarantee Act in India', Economic and Political Weekly, 24 October.
Khera, Reetika and Nayak, Nandini (2009), 'What Works Against Women', Frontline,
16 January.
Khera, Reetika, and Vanaik, Anish (2009), 'Rajasthan: Way Ahead', Frontline, 16 January.
Khera, Reetika (2005), 'Maharashtra's Experience with the Employment Guarantee Scheme’,
mimeo, Centre for Development Economics at the Delhi School of Economics.
Khera, Reetika (2008), 'The Black Hole of NREGA Records in Orissa', Yojana, August.
Kishnaraj, M., Pandey, D., Aruna, K. (2004), 'Does EGS Require Restructuring for Poverty
Alleviation and Gender Equality? ', Economic and Political Weekly, 17 April.
Kundu, Amitabh, and Sarangi, Niranjan (2005), 'Issue of Urban Exclusion', Economic and
Political Weekly, 13 August.
Lakin, J. and Ravishankar, N. (2006), 'Working for Votes: The Politics of Employment
Guarantee in India', mimeo, Department of Government, Harvard University.
Louis, Prakash (2006), 'Birth Pangs in Bihar', Economic and Political Weekly, 2 December.
Mahapatra, et al (2008), 'NREGA: Opportunities and Challenges', mimeo, Centre for Science
and Environment, New Delhi.
Mathur, Lalit (2007), 'Employment Guarantee: Progress so far', Economic and Political
Weekly, 29 December.
Mazdoor Kisan Samiti (?) 'Fact Finding Report on the Status of Implementation of Scheme
Under NREGA in Bengabad Block of Giridih District Jharkhand'.
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McAuslan, Ian (2006), 'The Politics of Pro-Poor Policy Change in India: The National Rural
Employment Guarantee Act', mimeo, Institute of Development Studies, University of
Sussex.
Mehrotra, Santosh (2004), 'Job Laws Can Sharply Cut Poverty This Decade', Economic and
Politcal Weekly, 18 December.
Mehrotra, Santosh (2008), ‘NREGA Two Years On: Where Do We Go From Here?’,
Economic and Political Weekly, 31 October.
Mehta, A. K., Ghosh, S., and Gupta, S. (2000), 'Monitoring of NREGA in Rajasthan:
Analysis Based on Reports of Field Visits to Villages in Two Districts by National
Level Monitors', Draft Report, MORD.
Moore, M., and Jadhav, V. (2004), 'The Employment Guarantee Scheme in Comparative and
Historical Perspective', mimeo, IDS Brighton.
Moore, Mick and Jadhav, Vishal (2004), 'The Politics and Bureaucratics of Rural Public
Works: Maharashtra's Employment Guarantee Scheme', Journal of Development
Studies, Vol 42(8), pp. 1271-1300, November.
Murgai, Rinku, and Ravallion, Martin (2005), 'Employment Guarantee in Rural India, What it
would cost and how much would it reduce poverty?', Economic and Political Weekly,
30 July.
Murgai, Rinku and Ravallion, Martin (2005), 'Is a Guaranteed Living Wage a Good Anti-
Poverty Policy?', World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 3640, June 2005.
Nanavaty, Reema and Divya Pandya (2005), 'National Rural Employment Guarantee
Programme: SEWA's Perception and Implications’, mimeo, SEWA, Ahmedabad.
National Council of Applied Economic Research and Public Interest (2009), Foundation
Evaluating Performance of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (New
Delhi: []
Olson, Maxine (2005), 'Work for Pro-Poor Growth', Economic Times, 20 October.
P S Vijayshanker, Rangu Rao, Nivedita Banerji and Mihir Shah (2006), 'Government's
'Schedule of Rates', Economic and Political Weekly, vo, 41, No. 17, 29 April.
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Pankaj, Ashok (2008), 'The National Employment Guarantee Act: Guaranteeing the Right to
Livelihood', India Social Development Report 2008, Oxford University Press, New
Delhi.
Pankaj, Ashok and Tankha, Rukmini (2010), 'Empowerments Effects of NREGA on Women
Workers: A study in Four States', Economic and Political Weekly, 24 July.
Pankaj, Ashok, and Sharma, Alakh (2006), 'Evaluation and Impact assessment of NREGS in
Bihar', Report by Institute for Human Development.
Papola, T S (2005), 'A universal Programme is Feasible', Economic and Political Weekly, 12
February.
Patnaik, Prabhat (2005), 'On the need for providing Employment Guarantee', Economic and
Political Weekly, 15 January.
Rande, Ajit (1998), 'Maharashtra's Employment Guarantee Scheme: Regional Patterns, Scope
for Reforms and Replication', Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 41(2).
Rao, V.M. (2007), 'Making Safety Nets Effective For Poor', Economic and Political
Weekly,18 August.
Ravallion, Martin, and Murgai, Rinku (2005), 'Employment Guarantee in Rural India: What
Would It Cost and How Much Would It Reduce Poverty?', Economic and Political
Weekly, 30 July.
Ravi, S., and Engler, M. (2009), 'Workfare in Low income countries: An Effective Way to
Fight Poverty the Case of NREGS in India'
Roy, Aruna and Dey, Nikhil (2009), ‘NREGA: Breaking the new ground', The Hindu
21 June.
Sainath, P. (2007), 'NREGP : No Place for Single Women', The Hindu, 22 May.
Saith, Ashwani (2005), 'Poverty Lines versus the Poor, Method versus Meaning', Economic
and Political Weekly, 22 October.
Sankaran, Kamala (2004), 'Decent Work, Women and Family: The Dilemma facing the
Employment Guarantee Law', paper presented at NIRD Foundation Day Seminar on
'Guaranteed Employment for the Rural Poor', November 4-5, 2004, Hyderabad.
Savale, Sanjay (2004), 'Is Local Really Better? Comparing EGS and locally managed rural
works programme in Nasik District', Employment Guarantee Scheme edited by
Professor Sujata Patel, Dr. Anuradha Joshi and Professor Mick Moore
Shah, Mihir (2006), 'Delivering on the Employment Guarantee', The Hindu, 4 May.
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Shah, Mihir (2004), 'National Rural Employment Gurantee Act: A Historic Opportunity',
Economic and Political Weekly, 11 December.
Shah, Mihir (2005), ‘Saving the Employment Guarantee Act’, Economic and Political
Weekly, 12 February.
Shah, Mihir (2007), 'Employment Guarantee, Civil Society and Indian Democracy',
Economic and Political Weekly, 17 November.
Shah, Mihir (2009), 'Governance Reform Key to NREGA Success', The Hindu, 14 March.
Shah, Mihir (2009), 'Multiplier Accelerator Synergy in NREGA, The Hindu, 4 April.
Shah, Mihir (2009), 'UPA's Challenge - Rural Governance Reform', The Hindu, 28 May.
Shah, Mihir (2009), ‘Taking Goals of NREGA 1 Forward', The Hindu, 14 August.
Siddhartha, and Vanaik, Anish (2008), 'Bank Payments: End of Corruption in NREGA?',
Economic and Political Weekly, 2 May.
Siddhartha, and Vanaik, Anish (2008), 'CAG Report on NREGA: Fact and Fiction',
Economic and Political Weekly, 27 June.
Subrahmaniam, Vidya (2009), 'The System Strikes Back', The Hindu, 17 December.
Subrahmaniam, Vidya (2009), 'Violence and threats bring a government to its knees', The
Hindu, 16 December.
Subrahmanian, Vidya (2009), 'Social Political Dividens from NREGA', The Hindu,18
October.
Tambe, Sandeep (2010), 'MGNREGS- Performance evaluation in 2009-10 and Palnning for
2010-11 in Sikkim', mimeo,Rural Management and Development Department,
Govt.of Sikkim.
Unni, Jeemol (1998), 'Non-Agricultural Employment and Poverty in Rural India: A review of
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Uppal, Vinayak (2009), 'Is NREGS a Safety Net for Children?’ Young Lives Student Paper,
Young Lives, Department of International Development, University of Oxford
Vanaik, Anish (2008), 'NREGA and the Death of Tapas Soren', Economic and Political
Weekly, 26 July.
Vijayanand, S.M. (2008), 'NREGA and Panchayati Raj Institutions: Learnings from Kerala'
(?) 'Report of the State Level Convention on NREGA and Inclusion of Persons with
Disability', organized by Shimoga, Karnataka, 16 November, 2007.
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