learning, and applies it to India, a country where several studies see the official urbanization rate as an under-estimate. For …, differing in their familiarity with India and with urban issues, following two different protocols. The judgment … each of the out-of-sample administrative units in India is urban or rural in practice. The analysis does not find that …

This paper takes a fresh look at growth convergence in India, combining insights from macroeconomics and urban …

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

Policy makers in developing countries, including India, are increasingly sensitive to the links between spatial … of granularity. This methodology is applied to India, where individual household survey records are mapped to ?places … spatial productivity patterns across India. The paper shows that there is a gradation of spatial performance across places …

The recent decline in India?s rural female labor force participation is generally attributed to higher rural incomes in … lower, this alleged income effect does not bode well for the empowerment of women as India develops. This paper argues that … misclassification of urban areas as rural, as a result of household surveys lagging behind India?s rapid urbanization process. The …

economies. India's experience with U.S. tapering offers insights into what to expect. This paper estimates the contribution of …

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 …