 The Argentine government introduced the "Jefes de Hogar" (Heads of Households) program in 2001 to combat the social malaise that followed the financial crisis in that year.Similarly, the government of India in 2005 introduced a five-year plan called the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) to bridge the vast rural–urban income disparities that have emerged as India's information technology sector has boomed.The program successfully empowered women and raised rural wages, but also attracted the ire of landowners who have to pay farm labourers more due to a higher prevailing wage.