"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 …

? Using a microeconometric model of the casual labor market in rural India, the authors find that a guaranteed wage rate …

methods to assess dimensional contributions to poverty. An empirical illustration for India highlights distinctive features of …

the first randomized controlled trial-based evidence on this question. Households in rural Bihar, India, were offered low …

This paper provides an overview of poverty and well-being trends in India since the mid-1990s. Poverty reduction since … rising) share of the population faces significant risk of slipping back into poverty. India's poor are increasingly … concentrated in low-income states with historically lower rates of economic progress. Even as India has reduced poverty faster than …