rely solely on household savings for purchasing a house. These findings underscore the urgent need to improve savings … household's ability to save on a regular basis. Due to limited outreach of institutional housing finance, most slum dwellers …

series of recent World Bank and other studies on teacher absence and incentives for performance. Surprise school visits … these shortcomings, but also on the types of incentives, management, and support structures that can improve motivation and …

-term savings bond redeemable on the daughter's 18th birthday provided she is unmarried, with additional bonuses for education … status, immunization, schooling) using statewide household survey data on fertility and child health, and constructing … proxies for household and individual program eligibility. The results based on this limited data imply that Apni Beti Apna …

Tax incentives neither make up for serious deficiencies in a country's investment environment nor generate the desired …