India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. The study finds a downward trend in …

used to assess the cost-effectiveness of India's Employment Guarantee Scheme in Bihar. Participants are found to have …

Public knowledge about India's ambitious Employment Guarantee Scheme is low in one of India's poorest states, Bihar …

India's huge expansion in rural electrification in the 1980s and 1990s offers lessons for other countries today. The … paper examines the long-term effects of household electrification on consumption, labor supply, and schooling in rural India …

theoretically ambiguous implications for the impacts on poverty. In the case of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme …

In 2005 India introduced an ambitious national anti-poverty program, now called the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural … the way it is designed, then anyone who wanted work on the scheme would get it. However, analysis of data from India …

The extent to which India's poor have benefited from the country s economic growth has long been debated. This paper …

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 …

A new dataset of 1,948 retail stores in India compiled by the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys shows that 27 percent of …