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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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Inventory of Public Land in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Ballaney, Shirley - 2017

local government in urban developed areas of Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. The methodology uses information on plot sizes … expert committee of the Ministry of Urban Development of the Government of India …

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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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Evaluating Workfare When the Work is Unpleasant : Evidence for India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

Alik-Lagrange, Arthur - 2017

theoretically ambiguous implications for the impacts on poverty. In the case of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme …

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Ahmedabad : More But Different Government For"Slum Free"And Livable Cities

Clarke Annez, Patricia - 2017

This paper analyzes real estate market dynamics over the past decade in the city of Ahmedabad, India, with a view to … the feasibility of various approaches to achieving "slum free" cities, the goal of the Government of India's planned …

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Does India's Employment Guarantee Scheme Guarantee Employment?

Dutta, Puja - 2017

In 2005 India introduced an ambitious national anti-poverty program, now called the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural … the way it is designed, then anyone who wanted work on the scheme would get it. However, analysis of data from India …

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Working with the Market : A New Approach to Reducing Urban Slums in India

Clarke Annez, Patricia - 2017

This paper examines the policy options for India as it seeks to improve living conditions of the poor on a large scale … of 20 to 30 percent of GDP, and cannot solve a problem on the scale of India's. Using two case studies, for Mumbai and …

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