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? Using a microeconometric model of the casual labor market in rural India, the authors find that a guaranteed wage rate …
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India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. The study finds a downward trend in …
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This paper examines poor households in the city of Mumbai and their exposure, vulnerability, and ability to respond to recurrent floods. The paper discusses policy implications for future adaptive capacity, resilience, and poverty alleviation. The study focuses particularly on the poor...
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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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This study provides estimates of social and financial costs of environmental damage in India from three pollution … international studies. The study estimates the total cost of environmental degradation in India at about 3.75 trillion rupees (US$80 …
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Brazil, China and India have seen falling poverty in their reform periods, but to varying degrees and for different … off, prior inequalities in various dimensions handicapped poverty reduction in both Brazil and India. Brazil's recent … reduction than India, although Brazil has been less successful in terms of economic growth. In the wake of its steep rise in …
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influencing the incidence of child health gains from access to piped water in rural India. Using propensity score matching methods …
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