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Evaluate the socio-economic impacts of migration on rural households.

  • UPSC 2026
  • Works and Economic Life

Migration is rarely an individual decision in rural India; it is a household livelihood strategy. The PLFS 2020-21 migration round put the migration rate at 28.9%, and the Economic Survey 2016-17 estimated about 90 lakh inter-state work migrants a year (2011–16). Whether this movement enriches or drains the rural household depends on who migrates, on…

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  • The optimistic case: migration as household strategy
  • Gendered and generational effects
  • The critical case
  • Evaluation
  • Conclusion

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