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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 …
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This paper examines the relationship between caste and gender inequality in three states in India. When households are …
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This paper analyzes four years of qualitative data observing a large participatory anti-poverty project in India as it …
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the first randomized controlled trial-based evidence on this question. Households in rural Bihar, India, were offered low …
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This paper takes a fresh look at growth convergence in India, combining insights from macroeconomics and urban …
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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 …
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In democracies, innovative political institutions have opened up scope for direct public participation often in the form of talk: citizens talking to the state and mutual talk among citizens on matters concerning community development. A prominent example is the Indian gram sabha, or village...
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This paper brings together sociological theories of culture and gender to answer the question ? how do large-scale development interventions induce cultural change? Through three years of ethnographic work in rural Bihar, the authors examine this question in the context of Jeevika, a World...
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facilitation program in rural India, with an in-depth, four-year ethnography of the intervention to understand the underlying …
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Standard approaches to decomposing how much group differences contribute to inequality rarely show significant between-group inequality, and are of limited use in comparing populations with different numbers of groups. This study applies an adaptation to the standard approach that remedies these...
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