India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. We find a downward trend in poverty …Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of our newly-constructed dataset of poverty measures for … measures since 1970, with an acceleration post-1991, despite rising inequality. Faster poverty decline came with both higher …

Can microcredit help unlock a poverty trap for some people by putting their businesses on a different trajectory? Could …, India, we find that “gung ho entrepreneurs” (GEs), households who were already running a business before microfinance … facilitate escape from a poverty trap …

the public in India today. To avoid this trap, and to strengthen the independent democracy our leaders won for us sixty …

The contribution of technology to the Indian banking industry, the role played by IDRBT and the significance of banking … are critical in fully leveraging the benefits of technology by banks. [IDRBT Banking Technology Awards at Hyderabad]. URL …

This paper, tries to put the current Unique Identity Project (UID) project of India into a perspective to evaluate the … arguments. In this light, the areas of concerns around the UID project in India are also being pointed out. Given the largest IT …

India is having large population, a fast growing economy with national focus on inclusive growth and an urgent need to …

This paper considers the long-run patterns of poverty in the United States from the early 1960s to 2010. Our results … contradict previous studies that have argued that poverty has shown little improvement over time or that anti-poverty efforts … have been ineffective. We find that moving from traditional income-based measures of poverty to a consumption-based measure …