Brazil, China and India have seen falling poverty in their reform periods, but to varying degrees and for different … off, prior inequalities in various dimensions handicapped poverty reduction in both Brazil and India. Brazil's recent … reduction than India, although Brazil has been less successful in terms of economic growth. In the wake of its steep rise in …

The extent to which India's poor have benefited from the country’s economic growth has long been debated. This paper …

Public knowledge about India's ambitious Employment Guarantee Scheme is low in one of India's poorest states, Bihar …

used to assess the cost-effectiveness of India's Employment Guarantee Scheme in Bihar. Participants are found to have …

? Using a microeconometric model of the casual labor market in rural India, the authors find that a guaranteed wage rate … that it would have less impact on poverty. "--World Bank web site …

There has been much debate about how much India's poor have shared in the economic growth unleashed by economic reforms … in the 1990s. Datt and Ravallion argue that India has probably maintained its 1980s rate of poverty reduction in the 1990 … understanding why economic growth has not done more for India's poor. India's economic growth in the 1990s has not been occurring in …

December 1999 - Nonfarm economic growth in India had very different effects on poverty in different states. Nonfarm … and Datt use 20 household surveys for India's 15 major states, spanning 1960-94, to study how initial conditions and the … Region - is part of a larger effort in the Bank to better understand the conditions required for pro-poor growth. The authors …