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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), which provides up to 100 days of labor to rural laborers at the mandated minimum wage. We examine the within-district change to night-time lights and banking deposits using the...

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Early Childhood Intervention for the Poor : Long Term Outcomes

Andrew, Alison; Attanasio, Orazio P.; Augsburg, Britta; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Early childhood interventions aim to promote skill acquisition and poverty reduction. While their short-term success is …

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Cash Transfers for Child Development : Experimental Evidence from India

Weaver, Jeffrey; Sukhtankar, Sandip; Niehaus, Paul; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Despite significant economic growth, child development outcomes in India remain poor. Using a large-scale experiment in which randomly-selected mothers receive cash transfers for the first two years of their child's life, we examine the relationship between income and child development in the...

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Effects of the CDM on poverty eradication and global climate protection

Rübbelke, Dirk T. G.; Rive, Nathan - 2008

In an impure public good model we analyze the effects of CDM transfers on poverty as well as on the global climate …

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The effect of the US biofuels mandate on poverty in India

Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Hubert, Marie-Hélène; Ural … - 2016

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Leakages from Public Distribution System (PDS) and the way forward

Gulati, Ashok; Saini, Shweta - 2015

The public distribution system (PDS) has been one of the main policy instruments of the Government of India (GoI) to provide food security to the people of this country, especially the vulnerable ones. The recently enacted National Food Security Act (NFSA), 2013, also relies heavily on it to...

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Indian food and welfare schemes : scope for digitization towards cash transfers

Saini, Shweta; Sharma, Sameedh; Gulati, Ashok; Hussain, … - 2017

The paper presents a case for a phased rolling out of direct benefits transfer (DBT) for Food in India. By studying all states and Union Territories on three broad parameters: demographics, performance of the existing Public Distribution System (PDS), and current state of banking infrastructure,...

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Do non-monetary prices target the poor? : evidence from a field experiment in India

Hoffmann, Bridget - 2016

This paper uses willingness to pay (WTP) data from a field experiment in Hyderabad, India in 2013 to determine whether non-monetary prices better target health products to the poor than monetary prices. Monetary WTP is increasing in income and non-monetary WTP is weakly decreasing in income....

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Social inclusion, poverty eradication and the 2030 agenda for sustainable development

Dugarova, Esuna - 2015

analysing and measuring social inclusion. Over time, however, it has become evident that, like other social ills such as poverty … highlighted the need for the simultaneous promotion of productivity, poverty reduction and greater inclusiveness. The recognized … UN Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2008-2017) has further reiterated the need to address social exclusion and …

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Health insurance for the poor in India : an analytical study

Ahuja, Rajeev (contributor) - 2005

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