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Public works are one of the most popular safety net and employment policy instruments in thedeveloping world, despite limited evidence on their effectiveness and optimal design features.This paper presents results on contemporaneous and post-program impacts from a public worksintervention in...
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influence? This conjecture is investigated using expenditure data at the local level from India's National Rural Employment …
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This paper analyzes analyze the impact of deregulatory reforms in India during the 1990s, which eliminated compulsory …
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This paper uses a large national household panel from 1999/2000 and 2007/08 to analyze the short-term effects of India …
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investigates the mechanism, by exploiting variation from a legal reform aimed at improving women's inheritance rights in India …
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economies. India's experience with U.S. tapering offers insights into what to expect. This paper estimates the contribution of …
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This paper explores the economic implications of a potential free trade agreement between India and the United States … cuts for services. The overall impacts are likely to be positive for the United States and India. While gains from trade … initial protection in India is particularly high. India would experience an expansion of exports and output, especially in …
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dataset of schools across 1297 villages in India, this paper shows that the large investments over the past decade have led to … teachers. Thus, at current margins, policies that decrease the inefficiency of public spending in India are likely to yield …
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Punjab, India, to assess the impact of a flagship sanitation program of the Government of India. The program, the Clean India …, eliminate the practice of open defecation, and improve the awareness and practice of good hygiene across rural India. It …
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The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted economic activity in India. Adjusting policies to contain trans- mission while … in India. Energy consumption is compared with the predictions of a consumption model that explains 90 percent of the …
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