India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. We find a downward trend in poverty …Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of our newly-constructed dataset of poverty measures for … measures since 1970, with an acceleration post-1991, despite rising inequality. Faster poverty decline came with both higher …

Can microcredit help unlock a poverty trap for some people by putting their businesses on a different trajectory? Could …, India, we find that "gung ho entrepreneurs" (GEs), households who were already running a business before microfinance … facilitate escape from a poverty trap …

We document how an anti-poverty program improves economic and subjective wellbeing, and self-sufficiency. Familias en …

In this paper, we comprehensively examine the effects of the Great Recession on child poverty, with particular … panel data model and data for 2000 to 2014, we estimate the relationship between the business cycle and child poverty, and … that the safety net provides protection; that is, the cyclicality of after-tax-and-transfer child poverty is significantly …

performance on a large number of tests. Second, we use a regression discontinuity design exploiting the fact that a "poverty index … completion rate of 75 percent. We conclude that any effect of cash transfers on the inter-generational transmission of poverty in …

using the Current Population Survey (CPS), the source of official poverty and inequality statistics. We link administrative … income of poor households. Underreporting in the survey data also greatly understates the effects of anti-poverty programs … and changes our understanding of program targeting. Using the combined data rather than survey data alone, the poverty …

directed funding in ways consistent with the War on Poverty's rhetoric of fighting poverty and racial discrimination: poorer … explain the strong backlash against the War on Poverty's programs …