This paper uses our new database on bank regulation and supervision in 107 countries to assess the relationship between …) regulatory restrictions on bank activities and the mixing of banking and commerce; (ii) regulations on domestic and foreign bank … supervision and regulation of bank activities. The findings instead suggest that policies that rely on guidelines that (1) force …

In this paper and the associated online database, we provide new data and measures of bank regulatory and supervisory … questions, including information on permissible bank activities, capital requirements, the powers of official supervisory … performance of banking systems. Since the underlying surveys are large and complex, we construct summary indices of key bank …

assignments, and simulates the market using an unusual survey of workers on a rural public-works scheme in a poor state of India …

Evidence on the implementation of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act suggests that the available work is …

India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. We find a downward trend in poverty …

knowledge gain from watching an information movie in rural India, while randomized village assignment identifies knowledge …

. A case study for India's massive National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme indicates lower impacts on poverty than …