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Are Caste Categories Misleading? The Relationship between Gender and Jati in Three Indian States

Joshi, Shareen - 2017

This paper examines the relationship between caste and gender inequality in three states in India. When households are …

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Can Environmental Policy Reduce Infant Mortality? Evidence from the Ganga Pollution Cases

Do, Quy-Toan - 2018

effective. This paper conducts a case study of environmental policy in India, focusing on unprecedented Supreme Court rulings …

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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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Collective Action and Community Development : Evidence from Self-Help Groups in Rural India

Desai, Raj M. - 2017

32 of 80 villages in one of the poorest districts in rural India in which to establish SHGs for women. Two years of …

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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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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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