infrastructure improvements on Belt and Road Initiative and non-Belt and Road Initiative countries' trade flows, growth, and poverty …, the Belt and Road Initiative could contribute to lifting 8.7 million people from extreme poverty and 34 million from … moderate poverty. Third, the initiative would lead to a modest increase in global carbon dioxide emissions, with a complex set …

were to scale up their inspections. In this paper, extensive firm-level data from India are used to compare the compliance … with air and water pollution. Finally, the paper examines whether environmental monitoring through inspections leads to …

construction of new rural roads to over 100,000 villages and the upgrading of 10,000 kilometers of national highways in India. The …

This paper applies an innovative method to estimate poverty in India in the absence of recent expenditure data. The … goods expenditure conducted in 2014-15. At the USD 1.90 per day international poverty line, the preferred model predicts a … 2014-15 head-count poverty rate of 10 percent in urban areas and 16.4 percent in rural areas, implying a poverty rate of 14 …