The Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) — the largest food subsidy programme in India — has been a dismal …

its components on a unique data set this paper demonstrates that in rural India household vulnerability is most explained …

Using a unique panel data for rural India for the periods 1999 and 2006, this paper models vulnerability to poverty. We … quantify household vulnerability in rural India in 1999 and 2006, investigate the determinants of ex post poverty as well as ex … policy variables which can be targeted to reduce the incidence of vulnerability in rural India …

India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) has been hailed as one of the country's most creative social …

in workfare programs, particularly in India. Using a unique data set for the Indian state of Rajasthan for 2009-10, this …