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Examining the evidence on the effectiveness of India’s rural employment guarantee act.

Examining the evidence on the effectiveness of India’s rural employment guarantee act.

3ie Working Paper 27

Raag Bhatia, Shonar Lala Chinoy, Bharat Kaushish, Jyotsna Puri, Vijit Singh Chahar and Hugh Waddington

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This working paper offers an overview of the existing evidence on India's Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), which aims to provide 100 days of guaranteed paid employment in a year in the form of unskilled manual labour to interested adults. The results are also presented in a user-friendly heat map that shows the type of evidence available for each Indian state as well as at the national level. The existing evidence shows that there is a critical paucity of impact evaluation evidence, despite wide availability of data. Most evidence available is from a few states. There is little evidence available on governance, indirect economic effects and poverty alleviation. 

Mapping the evidence on learning to earning interventions in low- and middle-income countries: A framework proposal and scoping review

Mapping the evidence on learning to earning interventions in low- and middle-income countries: A framework proposal and scoping review

Working paper 3ie 2025  
The authors of this paper have proposed a framework that categorises existing technical and vocational education and training (TVET) and skills interventions and labour market outcomes in L&MICs.

Impact of a COVID-19 emergency liquidity support package on bank performance and lending: a controlled interrupted time series (CITS) analysis

Impact of a COVID-19 emergency liquidity support package on bank performance and lending: a controlled interrupted time series (CITS) analysis

Working paper 3ie 2025  
The authors of this study evaluate the impact of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s (EBRD) Solidarity Package, which was a COVID-19 emergency liquidity support package.

Key learnings from one-year pilot studies under Swashakt

Key learnings from one-year pilot studies under Swashakt

Working paper 3ie 2024  
The authors of this working paper synthesize learnings from the five pilot projects that were implemented in the states of Bihar, Gujarat, Jharkhand, and West Bengal.

The enablers and barriers to rural women’s participation in management training programs

The enablers and barriers to rural women’s participation in management training programs

Working paper 3ie 2024  
The authors of this paper provide insights into some of the enablers and barriers to women’s participation in a micro-MBA program that seeks to cultivate competencies and encourage leadership capabilities among women weavers to initiate or manage their microenterprises.

Setting up women’s collective enterprises in rural India: Learnings from 3ie’s Swashakt program

Setting up women’s collective enterprises in rural India: Learnings from 3ie’s Swashakt program

Working paper 3ie 2024  
The authors of this paper synthesise findings from four process evaluations of programs that support collective and group-based models for women-led businesses in India.

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  • DOI : 10.23846/WP0027

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