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Poverty and Survival
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2010
more clearly relevant. Using state-level panel data for India, we contribute the first estimates of the impact of changes …
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Access to Banking Services and Poverty Reduction : A State-Wise Assessment in India
Bhandari, Amit K. - 2013
poorest sections of society. In India, financial inclusion emphasizes to include maximum number of people under formal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013095977
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Welfare Dynamics in India Over a Quarter Century : Poverty, Vulnerability, and Mobility During 1987-2012
Dang, Hai-Anh - 2020
We analyze the Indian National Sample Survey data spanning 1987/88–2011/12 to uncover patterns of transition into and out of different classes of the consumption distribution. At the aggregate level, income growth has accelerated, accompanied by accelerating poverty decline. Underlying these...
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Aspirations, Poverty and Education : Evidence from India
Serneels, Pieter M. - 2020
This paper investigates whether aspirations matter for education, which offers a common route out of poverty. We find that mother aspirations are strongly related to the child's grade achieved at age 18. The relation is nonlinear, suggesting there is a threshold, and depends on caste, household...
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The Redistributive Effects of Political Reservation for Minorities : Evidence from India
Chin, Aimee - 2009
state-time variation in reservation in state legislative assemblies in India that arises from national policies that cause …
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Aggregate Effects from Public Works : Evidence from India
Cook, C. Justin - 2020
This paper explores the aggregate economic effects from India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS …
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Is Caste Destiny? Occupational Diversification Among Dalits in Rural India
Gang, Ira N. - 2012
The caste system – a system of elaborately stratified social hierarchy – distinguishes India from most other societies … India, with Dalits or Scheduled Castes (SC) clustered in occupations that were the least well paid and most degrading in … terms of manual labour. Along with the Scheduled Tribes (STs), the SCs have the highest incidence of poverty in India, with …
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The Contribution of Social Transfers to the Reduction of Poverty
Longford, Nicholas T. - 2010
We interpret social transfers broadly as a set of measures to reduce or relieve poverty, and study how well this purpose is served in the countries that participated in the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions in 2007. Motivated by the findings, we characterise a social...
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Dynamics and Drivers of Consumption and Multidimensional Poverty : Evidence from Rural Ethiopia
Brück, Tilman - 2013
This study aims to explore poverty measures, its dynamics and determinants using Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) and consumption poverty. Our results show that the two measures assign similar poverty status to about 52 percent of households and that both approaches confirm poverty is mainly...
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Fighting Poverty : Assessing the Effect of Guaranteed Minimum Income Proposals in Québec
Clavet, Nicholas-James - 2013
This paper analyzes the impact of a recent recommendation made by Quebec's Comité consultatif de lutte contre la pauvreté et l'exclusion sociale to guarantee every individual an income equal to 80% of Statistics Canada's Market Basket Measure (MBM). Workers with earnings at least equivalent to...
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