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Three Essays On Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, Rakhe Balachandran
Three Essays On Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, Rakhe Balachandran
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
India’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGs) is the largest public works program in the world with an objective to ensure rural livelihood security by generating employment through infrastructure projects. This thesis is comprised of three essays investigating the MGNREGs’ impact on rural communities and the labor market. The first essay examined the targeting accuracy of the program. I simultaneously controlled for the self-selection bias and endogeneity bias between poverty and program participation using an extended probit model. Using data from National Sample Survey (NSS) 2014, I find that households closer to the poverty line are more likely …
Exchange Rate Volatility Effects On Brics Countries Exports, David Isaias Maradiaga Pineda
Exchange Rate Volatility Effects On Brics Countries Exports, David Isaias Maradiaga Pineda
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
The leaders of the leading emerging economies Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS) claim that increased currency exchange rate volatility (CERV) from USD, EUR, and JPY (G-3) negatively impacts their exports, and expressed their desire for less trade dependence on these currencies. The literature on the impact of CERV on trade is vast. However, no consensus on the impact’s direction and significance has been reached yet. The motivation of this study was: first, to contribute to the existing empirical literature by using an alternative methodology; and second, to provide empirical evidence to the claim’s validity or nullity by …