minorities living in selected mountainous provinces designated as difficult, and all households living in communes officially … who were included (about 15 percent of the population) were disproportionately poor. Estimates of the program's impact …

protect households against extreme tail events; half the expected value of indemnities paid by the insurance are generated by … insurance to households, the risks facing a financial institution underwriting rainfall insurance contracts, and pricing. …Using 40 years of historical rainfall data, this paper estimates a distribution for payouts on rainfall insurance …

surveys in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Indonesia, and Mexico, along with special surveys from India and Tonga, show similar … contrast, there is little observed relationship between mental health and poverty or education, common measures of socio … impact on mental health than overall levels of poverty. This may have important implications for social protection policy …

India last released official estimates of poverty and inequality. This paper sheds light on how poverty and inequality have …The last expenditure survey released by India's National Sample Survey organization dates back to 2011, which is when … company. The results show that: (1) extreme poverty is 12.3 percentage points lower in 2019 than in 2011, with greater poverty …

This paper nowcasts poverty in India, one of the countries with the largest population below the international poverty … (at the $1.90 poverty line) for India in 2017 is estimated at 10.4 percent with a confidence interval of [8.1, 11.3]. The … uncertainty about recent poverty trends in the country. Applying a pass-through and survey-to-survey methodology, extreme poverty …

This paper assembles data at the all-India level and for the village of Palanpur, Uttar Pradesh, to document the … not only increasing incomes and reducing poverty, but appears as well to be breaking down long-standing barriers to … mobility among the poorest segments of rural society. Efforts by the government of India to accelerate the process of …

The transformation of India's unorganized sector is important to its modernization, growth, and attainment of regional … economic equality. This paper documents several key facts about India's unorganized sector in manufacturing and services. First …

in the 1990s. The authors argue that India has probably maintained its 1980s rate of poverty reduction in the 1990s … national rate of growth would have generated a rate of poverty reduction that was double India's historical trend rate. States … economic growth is only one element of an effective strategy for poverty reduction in India. The sectoral and geographic …

short and medium-term poverty and welfare effects of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. Triple difference … for scheduled castes and tribes and households supplying casual labor. Asset creation via program-induced land …