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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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Does Involvement of Local Ngos Enhance Public Service Delivery? Cautionary Evidence from a Malaria-Prevention Evaluation in India
Das, Ashis - 2017
Using data from an experimental supportive intervention to India's malaria control program, this paper studies the …
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Strengthening Malaria Service Delivery Through Supportive Supervision and Community Mobilization in an Endemic Indian Setting : An Evaluation of Nested Delivery Models
Das, Ashis - 2017
promote recommended behaviors, including prompt treatment seeking for febrile illness, in Odisha India. The tested modules …
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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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Measuring the Effect of a Community-Level Program on Women's Empowerment Outcomes : Evidence from India
Kandpal, Eeshani - 2017
This paper uses primary data from rural north India to show that participation in a community-level female empowerment … support groups, literacy camps, adult education classes, and vocational training for rural women in several states of 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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