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From local to global and informal to formal: Entering mainstream markets

Nanavaty, Reema - 2005

This is a brief sketch of the Self Employed Women’s Association’s (SEWA) threedecade- long journey from the local to global and informal to formal sector in search of finding work and income for now 720,000 women workers. Though SEWA remains a local and an informal economy workers’...

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Poverty in India: Misspecified policies and estimates

Suryanarayana, M. H. - 2002

is particularly so for problems in the context of economic development. Solutions for poverty alleviation in developing … policies. Faulty evaluation due to specification errors in estimates of poverty only compounds the error. This paper discusses … such an in issue in the context of strategies for and estimates of poverty reduction in the developing countries. The …

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Poverty targeting in Asia: Country experience of India

Srivastava, Pradeep - 2004

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Welfare implications of fiscal reform: The case of food subsidies in India

Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2002

This paper investigates the effect of a food subsidy programme in India on child malnutrition by addressing the following linked questions using household survey data that includes information on usage of the public distribution system. First, does the food subsidy induce higher expenditures on...

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