Preferential Resource Spending under an Employment Guarantee : The Political Economy of MGNREGS in Andhra Pradesh

Are ostensibly demand-driven public works programs with high levels of safeguards nonetheless susceptible to politi al influence?We investigate this conjecture using expenditure data at the local level from India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. Focusing on one state where accountabilit...

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Main Authors:	Sheahan, Megan, Liu, Yanyan, Barrett, Christopher B., Narayanan, Sudha
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2020
Subjects:	EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE POLITICAL ECONOMY PROJECT EXPENDITURE SAFETY NETS RURAL EMPLOYMENT PUBLIC WORKS PUBLIC SPENDING
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33526

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spelling	okr-10986-335262021-05-25T10:54:42Z Preferential Resource Spending under an Employment Guarantee : The Political Economy of MGNREGS in Andhra Pradesh Sheahan, Megan Liu, Yanyan Barrett, Christopher B. Narayanan, Sudha EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE POLITICAL ECONOMY PROJECT EXPENDITURE SAFETY NETS RURAL EMPLOYMENT PUBLIC WORKS PUBLIC SPENDING Are ostensibly demand-driven public works programs with high levels of safeguards nonetheless susceptible to politi al influence?We investigate this conjecture using expenditure data at the local level from India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. Focusing on one state where accountability and transparency mechanisms have been employed and implementation efforts have been widely applauded, we find no evidence of partisan-influenced spending before the 2009 election and find that the political leaning of a mandal played only a small part in fund distribution after the 2009 election. Most variation in public works expenditures is explained by the observed needs of potential beneficiaries, as the scheme intended. 2020-04-03T16:00:55Z 2020-04-03T16:00:55Z 2018-10 Journal Article World Bank Economic Review 1564-698X http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33526 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Journal Article South Asia India
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topic	EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE POLITICAL ECONOMY PROJECT EXPENDITURE SAFETY NETS RURAL EMPLOYMENT PUBLIC WORKS PUBLIC SPENDING
spellingShingle	EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE POLITICAL ECONOMY PROJECT EXPENDITURE SAFETY NETS RURAL EMPLOYMENT PUBLIC WORKS PUBLIC SPENDING Sheahan, Megan Liu, Yanyan Barrett, Christopher B. Narayanan, Sudha Preferential Resource Spending under an Employment Guarantee : The Political Economy of MGNREGS in Andhra Pradesh
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description	Are ostensibly demand-driven public works programs with high levels of safeguards nonetheless susceptible to politi al influence?We investigate this conjecture using expenditure data at the local level from India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. Focusing on one state where accountability and transparency mechanisms have been employed and implementation efforts have been widely applauded, we find no evidence of partisan-influenced spending before the 2009 election and find that the political leaning of a mandal played only a small part in fund distribution after the 2009 election. Most variation in public works expenditures is explained by the observed needs of potential beneficiaries, as the scheme intended.
format	Journal Article
author	Sheahan, Megan Liu, Yanyan Barrett, Christopher B. Narayanan, Sudha
author_facet	Sheahan, Megan Liu, Yanyan Barrett, Christopher B. Narayanan, Sudha
author_sort	Sheahan, Megan
title	Preferential Resource Spending under an Employment Guarantee : The Political Economy of MGNREGS in Andhra Pradesh
title_short	Preferential Resource Spending under an Employment Guarantee : The Political Economy of MGNREGS in Andhra Pradesh
title_full	Preferential Resource Spending under an Employment Guarantee : The Political Economy of MGNREGS in Andhra Pradesh
title_fullStr	Preferential Resource Spending under an Employment Guarantee : The Political Economy of MGNREGS in Andhra Pradesh
title_full_unstemmed	Preferential Resource Spending under an Employment Guarantee : The Political Economy of MGNREGS in Andhra Pradesh
title_sort	preferential resource spending under an employment guarantee : the political economy of mgnregs in andhra pradesh
publisher	Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
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Preferential Resource Spending under an Employment Guarantee : The Political Economy of MGNREGS in Andhra Pradesh

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