Brazil, China and India have seen falling poverty in their reform periods, but to varying degrees and for different … inequality, China might learn from Brazil's success with such policies. India needs to do more to assure that poor people are … reasons. History left China with favorable initial conditions for rapid poverty reduction through market-led economic growth …

The paper examines the ways in which recent economic growth has been uneven in China and India and what this has meant … development. The authors argue that the development paths of both China and India have been influenced by, and have generated …

Bangladesh. An illiterate adult earns significantly more in the nonfarm economy when living in a household with at least one … practice? Using household survey data for Bangladesh, Basu, Narayan, and Ravallion find that education has strong external …

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

In 2005 India introduced an ambitious national anti-poverty program, now called the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural … the way it is designed, then anyone who wanted work on the scheme would get it. However, analysis of data from India …

theoretically ambiguous implications for the impacts on poverty. In the case of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme …

India's huge expansion in rural electrification in the 1980s and 1990s offers lessons for other countries today. The … paper examines the long-term effects of household electrification on consumption, labor supply, and schooling in rural India …