There has been much debate about how much India's poor have shared in the economic growth unleashed by economic reforms … in the 1990s. The authors argue that India has probably maintained its 1980s rate of poverty reduction in the 1990s … economic growth has not done more for India's poor. India's economic growth in the 1990s has not been occurring in the states …

Public knowledge about India's ambitious Employment Guarantee Scheme is low in one of India's poorest states, Bihar …

used to assess the cost-effectiveness of India's Employment Guarantee Scheme in Bihar. Participants are found to have …

theoretically ambiguous implications for the impacts on poverty. In the case of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme …