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

This paper documents the changing structure of wages in India over the post-reform era, the roughly two-decade period … Indian state. While real wages have risen across India over the past two decades, the increase has been greater in rural …

used to assess the cost-effectiveness of India's Employment Guarantee Scheme in Bihar. Participants are found to have …

Public knowledge about India's ambitious Employment Guarantee Scheme is low in one of India's poorest states, Bihar …

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 …

This paper considers the welfare and distributional consequences of higher relative food prices in rural India through … the Public Distribution System, India's giant food-rationing scheme. Moreover, policies, like agricultural export bans … rural India. Conventional welfare analyses that assume fixed wages and focus on households' net sales position lead to …

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

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 …

increases over the next three decades will affect household-level welfare in India. The authors predict a substantial fall in … the non-poor, since they own the lion's share of agricultural land. The results suggest that poverty in India will be …