This assessment of India's compliance with the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) Insurance Core … for India, this is the first external assessment of India's compliance with the ICPs. The Insurance Regulatory and … Development Authority (IRDA) have principal responsibility for insurance regulation and supervision in India, although the central …

workfare scheme in which the government acts as the employer of last resort. Is this a cost-effective policy against poverty …? Using a microeconometric model of the casual labor market in rural India, the authors find that a guaranteed wage rate … sufficient for a typical poor family to reach the poverty line would bring the annual poverty rate down from 34 percent to 25 …