The national employment guarantee scheme and inequities in household spending on food and non-food determinants of health in rural India.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Inequities in a population in spending on food and non-food items can contribute to disparities in health status. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) was launched in rural India in 2006, aimed at providing at least 100 days of manual work to a member in needy households.

Methods

We used nationally representative data from the consumer expenditure surveys of 2004-05 and 2009-10 and the employment survey of 2009-10 conducted by National Sample Survey Organisation to assess the effect of MGNREGS in reducing inequities in consumption of food and non-food items between poor and non-poor households in the states of India. Variations among the states in implementation of MGNREGS were examined using the employment and unemployment sur

SUBMITTER: Dilip TR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3856602 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature