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National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA)
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Jobs, nature and the Green New Deal: lessons from the global South
A new article in the 'Journal of Philosophical Transactions B' explores how experiences from large-scale social protection programmes in the global South could help us link two important elements of ideas for a Green New Deal, creating local jobs for a just transition while increasing ecosystem stewardship
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2019 – the way forward is a Green Decent Work Guarantee
How can the world achieve a step change in the fight against climate change during 2019? IIED director Andrew Norton looks at the issues and suggests that a radical approach may hold the solution
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Ten ways to secure social justice in the green economy
IIED and CAFOD have published guidelines that policymakers can follow to improve the social outcomes of green economy strategies
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'Just give money' or 'just give work' to the poor?
A previous blogpost on Due South discussed the potential for cash transfers to contribute to climate change adaptation. But 'just giving money to the poor' is not the only social policy programmes being implemented in the developing world. In India, a different approach is being tried: rather than guarantee the poor an income, the government guarantees them paid work, via the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), which came into being in 2005.
