the informal sector is moving from rural to urban locations. Although the secular trend for India's manufacturing … strains than those focused only on the formal sector. Cities are evolving in India from places of goods production to forges …

This paper estimates the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral and North-South-East-West Highways in India on welfare …

There are significant value chain linkages between India and Bangladesh, particularly in the textile and apparel sector …. India specializes in the upstream segment, supplying such intermediate inputs as silk, cotton, yarn, and fabrics to … Bangladesh. Bangladesh specializes in the downstream final apparel segment, exporting worldwide as well as to India. Tariffs and …

of the U.S. central bank reducing its security purchases, had a sharp negative impact on emerging markets. India was … toward a financial crisis. This paper contends that India was adversely impacted because it had received large capital flows … rebalance away from emerging markets. In addition, India's macroeconomic conditions had weakened in prior years, which rendered …

Indira Kranti Patham in Andhra Pradesh, India, has had an impact on the economic and social wellbeing of households that …

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 …

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 …

The infrastructure gap is one of the most significant impediments to India realizing its growth and poverty reduction … potential. Although India?s transport network is one of the most extensive in the world, accessibility and connectivity are … upgraded the quality and width of 5,846 km of roads in India. The analysis uses a difference-in-difference estimation strategy …

theoretically ambiguous implications for the impacts on poverty. In the case of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme …