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Dams
Duflo, Esther - 2005
dam is built, agricultural production does not increase but poverty does. In contrast, districts located downstream from … the dam benefit from increased irrigation and see agricultural production increase and poverty fall. Overall, our … implications, and has, in aggregate, increased poverty …
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Banking on Transparency for the Poor : Experimental Evidence from India
Field, Erica Marie; Rigol, Natalia; Moore, Charity Troyer; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Do information frictions limit the benefits of financial inclusion drives for the rural poor? We evaluate an experimental intervention among recently banked poor Indian women receiving government cash transfers via direct deposit. Treated women were provided automated voice calls confirming...
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