32 of 80 villages in one of the poorest districts in rural India in which to establish SHGs for women. Two years of …

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 …

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 …

panel household data from India, together with state-level variation in the implementation of land reform, to address some …

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 …