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Welfare Schemes and Social Protection in India

Jha, Raghbendra - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2013

This paper provides a broad overview of welfare schemes in India and their impact on social protection during a period … welfare indicators. (ii) Despite this India is spending less on social welfare programs and other welfare schemes than many …) Finally, the paper argues that the efficiency and effectiveness of key welfare programs in India need to be substantially …

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Intimations of Keith Hart's 'Informal Economy' - In the Work of Henry Mayhew, P T Bauer and Richard Salisbury

Conroy, John D. - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2012

This paper considers the idea of informality in market exchange, as introduced into the economic development literature by Keith Hart in the 1970s. In addition to Hart (1971, 1973) it will discuss three writers who may be considered his intellectual forerunners. Each, to a greater or less...

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Colonial Origins of the Informal Economy on the Gazelle Peninsula

Conroy, John D. - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2014

This paper is concerned with the accommodation to the market economy of Tolai people, indigenous to the Gazelle Peninsula in Papua New Guinea and regarded as one of the most prosperous and enterprising groups in the country. 'The market' was introduced to Tolai by German (and later, Australian)...

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ENDOGENOUS FERTILITY POLICY AND UNFUNDED PENSIONS

Booth, Alison; Sepulveda, Facundo - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2007

We study the joint determination of fertility subsidies and Social Security taxes in an overlapping generations model where agents are heterogeneous in endowments. In equilibria where Social Security is valued, old and poor young agents form a coalition that sustains Social Security. When voting...

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Timing of Capture of Anti-poverty Programs: Rural Public Works and Food for Work Programs in Rural India

Jha, Raghbendra; Bhattacharyya, Sambit; Gaiha, Raghav - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2009

Using National Sample Survey data for rural India we examine the incidence of capture in two workfare programs in rural India: the Rural Public Works and the Food for Work Programs for 1993-94 and 2004-05 respectively. We discover a high degree of program capture among the general population....

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Targeting Accuracy of the NREG: Evidence from Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra

Gaiha, Raghav; Shankar, Shylashri; Jha, Raghbendra - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010

Several tests of targeting accuracy of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREG) focusing on shares of participants by poverty status, their duration of participation, and earnings from it are used. The analysis is based on primary household data collected from three India states,...

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Is There a Case for the Employment Guarantee Scheme in India? Some Recent Evidence

Gaiha, Raghav - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2004

Overall participation in the Employment Guarantee Scheme (EGS) in Maharashtra (an Indian state) fell sharply over the period 1980-97. Some of this reduction was due to expansion of irrigation facilities leading to expansion of farm employment. Alongside, expansion of non-farm employment led to a...

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Small but effective: India's targeted unconditional cash transfers

Dutta, Puja; Howes, Stephen; Murgai, Rinku - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010

India's approach to social security stresses the provision of subsidized food and public works. Targeted, unconditional cash transfers are little used, and have been little evaluated. An evaluation of cash transfers for the elderly and widows based on national household survey data and surveys...

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Optimal Capital Income Taxation with Means-tested Benefits

Kumru, Cagri Seda; Piggott, John - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2012

This paper studies the interaction between capital income taxation and a means tested age pension in the context of an overlapping generations model, calibrated to the UK economy. Recent literature has suggested a rehabilitation of capital income taxation (Conesa et al. (2009)), predicated on...

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The impact of a large rice price increase on welfare and poverty in Bangladesh

Hasan, Syed Abul - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2013

This paper studies the eect of a sharp rice price increase on welfare and poverty in Bangladesh. We employ household … expenditure information to estimate the welfare loss in- duced by the price increase. Our ndings suggest that we underestimate the … proportionate welfare loss for the rice producing households and overestimate that of the households who do not produce rice, if we …

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