We investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on income levels, poverty, and inequality in both the immediate … aftermath and during the uneven recovery until December 2021 using high-frequency household survey data from India. We find that … remained incomplete and was unevenly spread over the population even 22 months after the start of the pandemic. Poverty more …

administrative failure - the persistent delay in paying beneficiaries on time in India’s iconic anti-poverty programme, the National …Administrative failures in anti-poverty programmes are widespread in developing countries. We focus on one such … performance of an anti-poverty programme - such as higher NREGA participation of rural households - would be misleading because it …