knowledge gain from watching an information movie in rural India, while randomized village assignment identifies knowledge …

Evidence on the implementation of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act suggests that the available work is …

. A case study for India's massive National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme indicates lower impacts on poverty than …

India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. We find a downward trend in poverty …

In what is probably the largest cash transfer program in the world today China's Dibao program aims to fill all poverty …

sides. The paper estimates how much of China’s poverty rate around 1980—near the outset of Deng Xiaoping’s pro … China’s poverty in 1980 is attributed to the impact of the Maoist path since 1950. Further checks and tests suggest that (if … anything) this is likely to be an underestimate. It took 10-20 years for China’s post-reform economy to make up the lost ground …

The path of income inequality in post-reform China has been widely interpreted as “China’s Kuznets curve.” We show that … agrarian policy reforms. Our findings warn against any presumption that the Kuznets process will assure that China has passed …

The widely held view that China has greatly reduced income poverty over the last 40 years does not accord with all the … is easily understood, since such measures depend solely on relative distribution, and inequality in China has been rising …