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 …

This paper uses the 1991 Indian trade liberalization to measure the impact of trade liberalization on poverty, and to … more exposed to liberalization were concentrated, experienced slower decline in poverty and lower consumption growth. The …

different generations. At present, youth and elderly are particularly vulnerable to poverty relative to adults in their middle …

impacts of the growth process. Cognizant of the vulnerability of its large population below poverty, India''s authorities have …While many have celebrated India''s accelerating economic growth, some have expressed concern about the distributional …

decline in earnings, extreme poverty and the Gini coefficient based on labor income increased by around 9.2 and 5 percentage … than offset the labor income losses for the bottom four deciles, however, such that poverty relative to the pre … ended in late 2020. The challenge will be to avoid a sharp increase in poverty and inequality if the labor market does not …

Addressing the poverty and distributional impacts of carbon pricing reforms is critical for the success of ambitious … which carbon pricing can potentially affect poverty and inequality. It finds that the channels differ in important ways …

emerging markets-the Nordics, India, Brazil, and Egypt-to try to answer this question. We highlight qualitatively in these … countries. Some of the analysis focuses on co-operative labor markets in the Nordics, direct benefit transfers in India, the …