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This paper analyzes income related inequality in financial inclusion in India using a representative household level …-national regions in India, but it is quite high in most of the cases, (c) income related inequality in financial inclusion cannot be …
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This paper clearly demonstrates that the axiomatic measurement approach developed in the human development literature can be usefully applied to the measurement of financial inclusion. A conceptual framework for aggregating data on financial services in different dimensions is developed. The...
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increased from 20.6 percent to 26 percent. The aggregate picture however masks large variations across the states of India and …
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Using the recent rounds of NSS data, this paper evaluates the performance and outreach of India's public distribution …
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The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), which guarantees employment of every rural household for 100 days, has different progressive provisions which incentivise higher participation of women in the programme. Official data suggest that 47 of all MGNREGA workers are...
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rural north India to understand the tradeoffs between time spent in school, time spent at work, time spent on home study and …
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Should India's export promotion policies be targeted at accelerating export growth at the extensive (new trading … a comparative study of exports from India and China by analysing the role of extensive and intensive margins in the … narrower as India is clearly catching up with China. By contrast, India lags significantly behind China in terms of intensive …
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This piece analyzes the implications of the National Food Security Act for India's commitments under the WTO Agreement … NFSA and that it is possible to leverage existing provisions in the WTO AoA to accommodate these within India's commitments … under the WTO AoA. While India should negotiate to retain the flexibility afforded in the Agreement and argue on specific …
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We investigate the relationship between growth and deprivation in India, an issue of immense interest. Given the … continuing controversy in India over poverty lines, we use a framework that rigorously assesses the impact of growth on the poor …
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This note provides an estimate of incidence of poor and poverty risk in India across NSS regions for 2004-05 and 2009 …
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