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Examining the economic impact of COVID-19 in India through daily electricity consumption and nighttime light intensity
Beyer, Robert; Franco-Bedoya, Sebastian; Galdo, Virgilio - 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted economic activity in India. Adjusting policies to contain trans- mission while … in India. Energy consumption is compared with the predictions of a consumption model that explains 90 percent of the …
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Lights out? : COVID-19 containment policies and economic activity
Beyer, Robert; Jain, Tarun; Sinha, Sonalika - 2020
activity in India. Following a uniform national lockdown, the Government of India classified all districts into three zones … data on income and consumption, supplemented with data from the Indian Census and the Reserve Bank of India. The analysis …
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Model and Methods for Estimating the Number of People Living in Extreme Poverty Because of the Direct Impacts of Natural Disasters
Rozenberg, Julie - 2016
Natural disasters have an impact on poverty through many different channels-economic growth, health, schooling, behaviors-that are difficult to quantify. It is nonetheless possible to assess the short-term impacts of income losses. A counterfactual scenario is built of what people's income would...
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Estimating poverty in India without expenditure data : a survey-to-survey imputation approach
Newhouse, David Locke; Vyas, Pallavi - 2019
This paper applies an innovative method to estimate poverty in India in the absence of recent expenditure data. The …
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Special Economic Zones : An Operational Review of Their Impacts
World Bank Group - 2017
Policy-makers across developing economies are implementing different forms of special economic zones (SEZs): programs intended to catalyze economic growth. The SEZ program is aimed at attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) to increase firm-level investment and improve firm-level productivity...
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A multiple-arm, cluster-randomized impact evaluation of the Clean India (Swachh Bharat) mission program in rural Punjab, India
Andrés, Luis; Deb, Saubhik; Joseph, George; Larenas, … - 2020
Punjab, India, to assess the impact of a flagship sanitation program of the Government of India. The program, the Clean India …, eliminate the practice of open defecation, and improve the awareness and practice of good hygiene across rural India. It …
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Deregulation and Firm Investment : Evidence from the Dismantling of the License System in India
Kandilov, Ivan T. - 2016
This paper analyzes analyze the impact of deregulatory reforms in India during the 1990s, which eliminated compulsory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245548
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Preferential Resource Spending under an Employment Guarantee : The Political Economy of MGNREGS in Andhra Pradesh
Sheahan, Megan - 2016
influence? This conjecture is investigated using expenditure data at the local level from India's National Rural Employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245756
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Short-Term Effects of India's Employment Guarantee Program on Labor Markets and Agricultural Productivity
Deininger, Klaus - 2016
This paper uses a large national household panel from 1999/2000 and 2007/08 to analyze the short-term effects of India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246204
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Relief from Usury : Impact of a Community-Based Microcredit Program in Rural India
Hoffmann, Vivian - 2017
the first randomized controlled trial-based evidence on this question. Households in rural Bihar, India, were offered low …
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