Higher Wages for Relief Work Can Make Many of the Poor Worse Off

Recent Evidence from Maharashtra's "Employment Guarantee Scheme"

• Author(s): Martin Ravallion, Gaurav Datt, Shubham Chaudhuri,
• Publisher: World Bank Publications
• Pages: 36
• Language: en

Description:... Guaranteed employment can be valuable insurance against poverty. But the recent experience in Maharashtra suggests that raising the wage rate when you don't have the budget to pay for it is not in the interests of all the poor. Some get higher pay, but others must go without relief work.