development quest. The sample includes Brazil, India, Vietnam and four African countries-Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, and Zambia …

methods to assess dimensional contributions to poverty. An empirical illustration for India highlights distinctive features of …

countries like India aspire to grow further and navigate a phase of rapid economic transformation, investments in social … articles take stock of India's major social protection programs, including pension programs, health insurance, the public …-poverty measures in India and indeed the world, while the former are relatively new instruments for unorganized workers. However, these …

the first randomized controlled trial-based evidence on this question. Households in rural Bihar, India, were offered low …

This paper provides an overview of poverty and well-being trends in India since the mid-1990s. Poverty reduction since … rising) share of the population faces significant risk of slipping back into poverty. India's poor are increasingly … concentrated in low-income states with historically lower rates of economic progress. Even as India has reduced poverty faster than …

India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. The study finds a downward trend in …