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Pro-Growth Equity : A Policy Framework for the Twin Goals
López-Calva, Luis Felipe - 2017
Growth is an important channel for poverty reduction. Policies to make growth more "inclusive" have permeated the development debate and "pro-poor growth" has been the subject of a wide range of papers in the literature, including issues related to measurement, modeling, and policy. However, the...
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A Randomized, Controlled Study of a Rural Sanitation Behavior Change Program in Madhya Pradesh, India
Patil, Sumeet - 2017
among young children. In 1999, India launched the Total Sanitation Campaign with the goal of achieving universal toilet … coverage in rural India by 2012. This paper reports on a cluster-randomized, controlled trial that was conducted in 80 rural …
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Distribution-Sensitive Multidimensional Poverty Measures
Datt, Gaurav - 2018
methods to assess dimensional contributions to poverty. An empirical illustration for India highlights distinctive features of …
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Welfare Dynamics in India Over a Quarter Century : Poverty, Vulnerability, and Mobility During 1987-2012
Dang, Hai-Anh - 2020
This paper analyzes the Indian National Sample Survey data spanning 1987/88-2011/12 to uncover patterns of transition into and out of different classes of the consumption distribution. At the aggregate level, income growth has accelerated, accompanied by accelerating poverty decline. Underlying...
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Relief from Usury : Impact of a Community-Based Microcredit Program in Rural India
Hoffmann, Vivian - 2017
the first randomized controlled trial-based evidence on this question. Households in rural Bihar, India, were offered low …
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Looking Back on Two Decades of Poverty and Well-Being in India
Narayan, Ambar - 2017
This paper provides an overview of poverty and well-being trends in India since the mid-1990s. Poverty reduction since … rising) share of the population faces significant risk of slipping back into poverty. India's poor are increasingly … concentrated in low-income states with historically lower rates of economic progress. Even as India has reduced poverty faster than …
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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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The Exposure, Vulnerability, and Ability to Respond of Poor Households to Recurrent Floods in Mumbai
Patankar, Archana Mahesh - 2017
This paper examines poor households in the city of Mumbai and their exposure, vulnerability, and ability to respond to recurrent floods. The paper discusses policy implications for future adaptive capacity, resilience, and poverty alleviation. The study focuses particularly on the poor...
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Recasting Culture to Undo Gender : A Sociological Analysis of Jeevika in Rural Bihar, India
Sanyal, Paromita - 2017
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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Poverty and Survival Prospects of Vietnamese Children Under Doi Moi
Wagstaff, Adam - 2017
By international standards, and given its relatively low per capita income, Vietnam has achieved substantial reductions in, and low levels of, infant and under-five mortality. The authors review existing evidence and provide new evidence on whether, under the economic liberalization program...
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