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. 2020 Jan 27;375(1794):20190127. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0127

Table 2.

Lower- and middle-income countries with employment schemes (threshold of 250 000 people receiving benefits) [6].

country programme name no. people covered (× 103) year
Bangladesh Employment Generation Programme for the Poorest 1400 2014
Brazil Economia Solidaria 534 2012
Congo (DRC) Economic Recovery Project 588 2016
Ethiopia Productive Safety Net Programme 7997 2016
Haiti National Project of Community Participation 450 2009
Hungary Public Works Programme 329 2015
India Mahatma Gandhi National Employment Guarantee Scheme 75 287 2016
Kenya Cash for Assets 300 2016
Madagascar PUPIRV 377 2013
Malawi Public Works Programme 2623 2014
Mexico Programa de Empleo Tempral Ampliado 1441 2014
Mozambique Productive Social Action Programme 283 2015
Nepal Karnali Employment Programme 323 2104
Nigeria Input for Works Programme 720 2015
Pakistan Community Physical Infrastructure 3118 2016
Russia Organization of Temporary Employment 812 2013
South Africa Extended Public Works Programme 350 2013
Yemen Labour Intensive Works (Social Fund for Development) 400 2017
Zimbabwe Food Deficit Mitigation Programme 756 2015