credit has still remained scarce in India. Primary Agriculture Credit Societies (PACS) working at grass-root level, having … institution. The present study examines the recovery performance of rural credit given by PACS in six different regions of India … Bank of India in collaboration with State Governments. …

the poorest rural regions of the world (Uttar Pradesh, India). Methodologically, it shows how indicators from the direct …-strand programs can help to explain the paradox as to why nearly 100 million women (in India alone) have participated in self help … programs despite modest global research evidence for micro-finance impacts on nominal incomes. Second, results argue strongly …

We study the impact of loan regulation in rural India on child labor with an overlapping-generations model of formal … household types. -- child labor ; India ; informal lending ; lending discrimination ; interest rate caps …

experimental measures of time discounting and risk aversion for villagers in south India to highlight behavioral features of … typical lending mechanisms. -- Time preference ; hyperbolic discounting ; self-control ; loan contracts ; microfinance …

terms, mostly due to a lack of data. This descriptive paper uses first-hand survey data from southern India disaggregated by …

rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that the disadvantage suffered by two historically … the SC and the ST households must remain a focus of attention besides promoting a more active labor market in rural India …. -- India ; social groups ; inequality ; quantile regression decomposition …

Affirmative action has been at the heart of public policies towards the socially disadvantaged in India. Compensatory …