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Is a guaranteed living wage a good anti-poverty policy?
Murgai, Rinku - 2005
? Using a microeconometric model of the casual labor market in rural India, the authors find that a guaranteed wage rate …
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Does piped water reduce diarrhea for children in rural India?
Jalan, Jyotsna - 2001
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Macroeconomic crises and poverty monitoring : a case study for India
Datt, Gaurav - 1996
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Why have some Indian states done better than others at reducing rural poverty?
Datt, Gaurav - 1996
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Growth and poverty in rural India
Ravallion, Martin - 1995
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Casting a Shadow : Productivity of Formal Firms and Informality
Amin, Mohammad - 2019
Using firm-level survey data for a large cross section of countries, the paper assesses the gap in labor productivity between formal and informal firms in developing countries for which comparable data are available. It also investigates the impact of competition from informal firms on the labor...
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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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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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