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Introduction
Omkar Joshi currently works at the Department of Sociology, University of Maryland, College Park. Omkar's broad areas of research are Social Stratification, Economic Sociology, Family Demography and Development Economics. He is currently working on the project 'India Human Development Survey.' with Prof. Sonalde Desai
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October 2011 - November 2015
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Since 2000, the Indian economy has experienced more rapid economic growth, including
even a few years of near double-digit growth, and a sharp decline in poverty. In spite of
these striking GDP growth achievements, growth in employment has been much slower.
As importantly, although the contribution of agriculture to the Indian economy is only
18 pe...
The past three decades have seen the advent of major transformations in the Indian economy. The economy has achieved average growth rates of 5–9%, education has risen sharply for both men and women, fertility rates have declined, and infrastructure facilities, particularly access to electricity, cooking gas and piped water, have improved. All these...
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
(MGNREGA) was enacted in 2005 and has completed a little over
a decade in India. It is the largest public employment programme
in the world and has promoted a wider participation from rural
households across the country. This paper examines the issue of
programme participation in MGNREGA ho...