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 …

local government in urban developed areas of Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. The methodology uses information on plot sizes … expert committee of the Ministry of Urban Development of the Government of India …

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 …

This paper analyzes real estate market dynamics over the past decade in the city of Ahmedabad, India, with a view to … the feasibility of various approaches to achieving "slum free" cities, the goal of the Government of India's planned …

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 …

This paper examines the policy options for India as it seeks to improve living conditions of the poor on a large scale … of 20 to 30 percent of GDP, and cannot solve a problem on the scale of India's. Using two case studies, for Mumbai and …

infrastructure with a view to identifying areas where India could improve its system of financing infrastructure in cities. Based on … very good services, important features of India?s municipal finance system stand out. The spending per capita is …-income households often have unintended distributional effects. Again, evidence from urban India suggests that cost recovery is …