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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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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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Pharmaceutical Patents and Prices : A Preliminary Empirical Assessment Using Data from India
Duggan, Mark - 2017
Nervous System market in India. The Central Nervous System segment is the second largest therapeutic category in terms of … retail sales in the world and is one of the fastest growing segments in India. Using information on product patents granted …
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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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Inheritance Law Reform and Women's Access to Capital : Evidence from India's Hindu Succession Act
Deininger, Klaus - 2017
capital investments, using disaggregated household level data from India. The authors use inheritance patterns over three …
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Information, Direct Access to Farmers, and Rural Market Performance in Central India
Goyal, Aparajita - 2017
This paper estimates the impact of a change in procurement strategy of a private buyer in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. Beginning in October 2000, internet kiosks and warehouses were established that provide wholesale price information and an alternative marketing channel to soy...
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