through increased access to welfare programs. Using newly available data from rural India, we establish that identity based …

decentralization programs. This paper examines regional dynamics and decentralization with reference to the Philippines, a country well … decentralization program relatively early (1991), and it is one of the most spatially diverse countries in the world. The reforms …

This paper has two main objectives. First, it computes capital flight (CF) through trade misinvoicing from India using … data from UNCOMTRADE, MIT Observatory of Economic Complexity and IMF E-library. India’s trade with 17 countries over the … least some of the failures of current macroeconomic policy in India could be attributed to CF. …

Using Census and NSS data this paper studies the evolution of Gender Bias (GB) in the age group 0–6 in India and its … until 2026. The paper also demonstrates that there are wide variations in GB across various states, even districts, of India …

relation to household poverty status in India as evidenced by our analysis of Census data (1951–2001) and those from NSS … over the last three censuses of India there is considerable variation by space, by poverty status and by education of women … bias in education and argue that for approximately half of India's children the Right to Education Act must involve …

Using a unique panel data for rural India for the periods 1999 and 2006 this paper models vulnerability to poverty. We … quantify household vulnerability in rural India in 1999 and 2006, investigate the determinants of ex post poverty as well as ex … policy variables which can be targeted to reduce the incidence of vulnerability in rural India. …