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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

? Using a microeconometric model of the casual labor market in rural India, the authors find that a guaranteed wage rate …