education are critical to build up the capacity of households (in particular, poor households) to participate in nonfarm …

-commerce participation is not random: participation is higher among the households with younger household heads, with secondary education …, particularly those with technical and vocational education, urban work experience, and knowledge of e-commerce. Second, e … household incomes. Third, e-commerce appears to yield benefits that are broadly shared among participants in an equitable way in …

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 …

in connection with the all-India rural roads program Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, using an overlapping generations … and mortality. Based on survey evidence from upland Orissa in India and Bangladesh, as well as elements of more usual …

This paper analyzes the effects of all-weather rural roads on households' net output prices, education and health in a … poor, drought-prone region of India. Of 30 villages originally surveyed in 2001-02, when two had such roads, a further nine … health and education at least as highly as the' commercial' ones …

This paper examines the impact of the recent banking crises in Europe and Central Asia on households' incomes and …

The impacts of international emigration and remittances on incomes and poverty in sending areas are increasingly … which applicants to the over-subscribed Samoan Quota may immigrate to New Zealand. The analysis compares incomes and poverty …