entitled How Lives Change: Palanpur, India and Development Economics, and point to two distinct, and staggered, drivers of … by falling poverty and fairly stable, or even declining, income inequality. Subsequently, from about the mid-1970s … onwards, a cumulative process of non-farm diversification took hold, and was accompanied by further growth and poverty decline …

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 …