India's rise in schooling and a third of the fall in child labor during the 1990s can be explained by falling poverty and … decisions? We examine this question in the context of India's 1991 tariff reforms. Overall, in the 1990s, rural India … a failure to follow the national trend in poverty reduction. Schooling costs appear to play a large role in this …

poorest sections of society. In India, financial inclusion emphasizes to include maximum number of people under formal … accounts of scheduled commercial banks and the changes in below poverty line population. The result suggests that the growth in … bank accounts is not significantly associated with the reduction in below poverty line population across states. Providing …

with little understanding of poverty among India's elderly or its determinants. This paper finds that households with …The Government of India is implementing a new policy which dramatically increases funding for a cash transfer program … elderly members do not have higher poverty rates than non-elderly households. This result is robust under various measures …

This paper investigates whether aspirations matter for education, which offers a common route out of poverty. We find …

underlying these results. -- Child labor ; trade liberalization ; poverty ; Indonesia …

parenthood, child labor, and poverty in pushing teenagers out of school is subject to particular attention. The potential …. Extreme poverty is another factor lowering school attendance, as children who have suffered hunger at some point in their …