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Effects of the CDM on poverty eradication and global climate protection
Rübbelke, Dirk T. G.; Rive, Nathan - 2008
In an impure public good model we analyze the effects of CDM transfers on poverty as well as on the global climate …
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The effect of the US biofuels mandate on poverty in India
Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Hubert, Marie-Hélène; Ural … - 2016
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Is a guaranteed living wage a good anti-poverty policy?
Murgai, Rinku; Ravallion, Martin - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003086485
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The employment effect of place-based policies : evidence from India
Li, Yue; Sinha Roy, Sutirtha - 2020
Many governments in developing countries have pursued policies targeting specific geographic areas over the past several decades. However, only a few have rigorously evaluated the causal impact of these interventions. This paper examines the effectiveness of a prominent place-based policy in...
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Leakages from Public Distribution System (PDS) and the way forward
Gulati, Ashok; Saini, Shweta - 2015
The public distribution system (PDS) has been one of the main policy instruments of the Government of India (GoI) to provide food security to the people of this country, especially the vulnerable ones. The recently enacted National Food Security Act (NFSA), 2013, also relies heavily on it to...
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Indian food and welfare schemes : scope for digitization towards cash transfers
Saini, Shweta; Sharma, Sameedh; Gulati, Ashok; Hussain, … - 2017
The paper presents a case for a phased rolling out of direct benefits transfer (DBT) for Food in India. By studying all states and Union Territories on three broad parameters: demographics, performance of the existing Public Distribution System (PDS), and current state of banking infrastructure,...
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Testing information constraints on India's largest antipoverty program
Ravallion, Martin; Van de Walle, Dominique; Dutta, Puja … - 2013
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Do non-monetary prices target the poor? : evidence from a field experiment in India
Hoffmann, Bridget - 2016
This paper uses willingness to pay (WTP) data from a field experiment in Hyderabad, India in 2013 to determine whether non-monetary prices better target health products to the poor than monetary prices. Monetary WTP is increasing in income and non-monetary WTP is weakly decreasing in income....
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Looking back on two decades of poverty and well-being in India
Narayan, Ambar; Murgai, Rinku - 2016
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Social inclusion, poverty eradication and the 2030 agenda for sustainable development
Dugarova, Esuna - 2015
analysing and measuring social inclusion. Over time, however, it has become evident that, like other social ills such as poverty … highlighted the need for the simultaneous promotion of productivity, poverty reduction and greater inclusiveness. The recognized … UN Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2008-2017) has further reiterated the need to address social exclusion and …
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