Toilet ownership in India has grown in recent years, but open defecation can persist even when rural households own … latrines. There are at least two pathways through which social norms inhibit the use of toilets in rural India: (i) beliefs … purity that dissociate latrines from cleanliness. A survey in Uttar Pradesh, India, finds a positive correlation between …

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 …

Since the liberalization of India's economy beginning in the early 1990's, the government has increasingly employed … never explicitly overturning precedent, the judiciary in India has increasingly become less sympathetic to contract teachers …

Since the liberalization of India's economy beginning in the early 1990's, the government has increasingly employed … never explicitly overturning precedent, the judiciary in India has increasingly become less sympathetic to contract teachers …

rights of disadvantaged and marginalized groups in India. In recent years, however, a number of criticisms of public interest …