competition allow local elites to capture local governments. This hypothesis is empirically examined using a longitudinal sample … of 80 West Bengal villages concerning targeting of credit, agricultural input kits, employment programs and fiscal grants … negligible adverse effects on targeting of private goods to the poor within villages, but with lower employment generation out of …

social interventions in 2005 by setting up ELA (Employment and Livelihood for Adolescents) Centres for the ELA microfinance …

. We use unique data on the search behavior of job seekers sampled from the inflow into employment during the year 1997 in … and job durations for employed and unemployed workers. Our main finding is that the public employment service specializes …

Productive employment generation is an important objective in most of the developing countries this motivation has … effect of labour market regulations on employment has also been assessed. Evidence does not favour labour market deregulation …; rather skill factor reveals a negative impact on employment, implying a mismatch between the available labour quality and the …

Patterns of rural-urban migration and employment shifts in a region that is facing ongoing depletion of groundwater …

employment and unemployment during the period 1993-2012. It shows that unemployment has generally fallen in this period, but this …