Recent years have seen an increasing interest in using public-works programs as anti-poverty measures in developing …

We examine the impact of political reservation for disadvantaged minority groups on poverty. To address the concern … that political reservation is endogenous in the relationship between poverty and reservation, we take advantage of the … reserved for Scheduled Tribes significantly reduces poverty while increasing the share of seats reserved for Scheduled Castes …

terms of manual labour. Along with the Scheduled Tribes (STs), the SCs have the highest incidence of poverty in India, with … poverty rates that are much higher than the rest of the population. Since independence, the Indian government has enacted …

health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is … in poverty on infant survival. We identify a significant within-state relationship which persists conditional upon state … income, indicating the size of survival gains from redistribution in favour of households below the poverty line. The poverty …