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Welfare Dynamics in India Over a Quarter Century : Poverty, Vulnerability, and Mobility During 1987-2012

Dang, Hai-Anh - 2020

This paper analyzes the Indian National Sample Survey data spanning 1987/88-2011/12 to uncover patterns of transition into and out of different classes of the consumption distribution. At the aggregate level, income growth has accelerated, accompanied by accelerating poverty decline. Underlying...

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Poverty Dynamics in India between 2004 and 2012 : Insights from Longitudinal Analysis Using Synthetic Panel Data

Dang, Hai-Anh - 2018

Recent National Sample Surveys point to significant poverty reduction in India since 2004/05, with a marked … analysis draws on the synthetic panels to derive a vulnerability line for India that can be used to separate out a population …

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Growth, Urbanization, and Poverty Reduction in India

Datt, Gaurav - 2017

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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Welfare Dynamics Measurement : Two Definitions of a Vulnerability Line and Their Empirical Application

Dang, Hai-Anh - 2017

Living Standards Survey) for the period 2004-2008 and cross-sectional data from India (National Sample Survey) for the period … 2004-2009. The estimation results indicate that in Vietnam and India during this time period, the population living in …

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Is Workfare Cost-Effective Against Poverty in a Poor Labor-Surplus Economy?

Murgai, Rinku - 2017

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

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Testing Information Constraints on India's Largest Antipoverty Program

Ravallion, Martin - 2017

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

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Long-Term Impacts of Household Electrification in Rural India

van de Walle, Dominique P. - 2017

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 …

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Non-Farm Diversification, Poverty, Economic Mobility and Income Inequality : a Case Study in Village India

Lanjouw, Peter F. (contributor); Murgai, Rinku (contributor) - 2017

This paper assembles data at the all-India level and for the village of Palanpur, Uttar Pradesh, to document the … mobility among the poorest segments of rural society. Efforts by the government of India to accelerate the process of … transformation currently underway in rural India …

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Evaluating Workfare When the Work is Unpleasant : Evidence for India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

Alik-Lagrange, Arthur - 2017

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

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Does India's Employment Guarantee Scheme Guarantee Employment?

Dutta, Puja - 2017

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 …

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