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32 of 80 villages in one of the poorest districts in rural India in which to establish SHGs for women. Two years of …
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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 …
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By international standards, and given its relatively low per capita income, Vietnam has achieved substantial reductions in, and low levels of, infant and under-five mortality. The authors review existing evidence and provide new evidence on whether, under the economic liberalization program...
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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 …
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This paper uses a three-round 4,000-household panel from Andhra Pradesh together with administrative data to explore short and medium-term poverty and welfare effects of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. Triple difference estimates suggest that participants significantly increase...
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Public knowledge about India's ambitious Employment Guarantee Scheme is low in one of India's poorest states, Bihar …
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Community-based (and driven) development (CBD/CDD) projects have become an important form of development assistance, with the World Bank's portfolio alone approximating 7 billion dollars. The authors review the conceptual foundations of CBD/CDD initiatives. Given the importance of the topic,...
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Scholars have often argued that crime deters growth, but the empirical literature assessing such effect is scarce. By exploiting cross-municipality income and crime data for Mexico -- a country that experienced a high increase in crime rates over the past decade -- this study circumvents two of...
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panel household data from India, together with state-level variation in the implementation of land reform, to address some …
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This paper reviews the current level and pattern of access to finance for India's rural poor and examines some of the … key microfinance approaches in India, taking a close look at the most dominant among these, the Self Help Group (SHG) Bank … 6,000 households in India undertaken by the authors. The main findings and implications of the paper are as follows …
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