diversification could thus yield significant returns in terms of declining poverty and increased income mobility. The evidence from … suggestion from the combined National Sample Survey and Palanpur data is of a slow process of non-farm diversification, whose … not only increasing incomes and reducing poverty, but appears as well to be breaking down long-standing barriers to …

Indonesia's Unified Database for Social Protection Programs (UDB), among the largest targeting registries in the world, used to … the poor compared to focusing on households registered in the UDB. Overall, there are large gains in targeting performance …

effect on reducing poverty in Indonesia. Second, households receiving remittances in 2007 spent more at the margin on one key …This paper analyzes the impact of international remittances on poverty and household consumption and investment using … in Indonesia are poorer than other types of households, and thus they tend to spend their remittances at the margin on …

governance reform in Pakistan's vast Indus Basin irrigation system. Using canal discharge measurements across all of Punjab …

Surface irrigation is a common pool resource characterized by asymmetric appropriation opportunities across upstream … allocation under an irrigation bureaucracy subject to corruption and rent-seeking. Data on the landholdings and political …

context of irrigation schemes, this can create water scarcity even when there is sufficient water to meet the total … requirements. High-frequency data from three irrigation schemes in Mozambique reveal patterns consistent with inefficiency in …

, including increased water extraction, poor irrigation management, and sea-level rise. To date no study has attempted to quantify …

water for irrigation to meet rising food demand; at the same time, the competition for water resources is growing in many …

This study estimates and compares the effects of small and large irrigation dams on cropland productivity in South …-benefit analysis of irrigation benefits shows that small dams may be more viable than large ones, large dams can play a potentially …