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Job Opportunities Along the Rural-Urban Gradation and Female Labor Force Participation in India

Chatterjee, Urmila - 2017

The recent decline in India?s rural female labor force participation is generally attributed to higher rural incomes in … lower, this alleged income effect does not bode well for the empowerment of women as India develops. This paper argues that … misclassification of urban areas as rural, as a result of household surveys lagging behind India?s rapid urbanization process. The …

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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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Trade Policies and Incentives in Indian Agriculture : Methodology, Background Statistics, and Protection and Incentive Indicators, 1965-95

Pursell, Garry - 2017

in India, declining an average of 0.6 percent (sugar) and 0.3 percent (cane) a year. During the same 29 years the free … market price of sugar fluctuated widely (expressed in India rupees) but in real terms increased about 1.3 percent a year … sugar prices of US 13-15 cents a pound or higher, India's domestic prices were roughly equivalent to, or below, world …

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Public Good Provision in Indian Rural Areas : The Returns to Collective Action by Microfinance Groups

Casini, Paolo - 2017

Self-help groups (SHGs) are the most common form of microfinance in India. The authors provide evidence that SHGs … technology of providing public goods. Using first-hand data on SHGs in India, the paper tests the prediction of the model and …

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Perspectives on the Sources of Heterogeneity in Indian Industry

Lall, Somik V. - 2017

The authors examine technical efficiency variation across four industrial sectors in India, using a stochastic …

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Quality and Accountability in Healthcare Delivery : Audit Evidence from Primary Care Providers in India

Das, Jishnu - 2017

This paper presents direct evidence on the quality of health care in low-income settings using a unique and original set of audit studies, where standardized patients were presented to a nearly representative sample of rural public and private primary care providers in the Indian state of Madhya...

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A Quarter Century Effort Yet to Come of Age : A Survey of Power Sector Reforms in Developing Countries

Jamasb, Tooraj - 2017

It has been more than two decades since the widespread initiation of global power sector reforms and restructuring. However, empirical evidence on the intended microeconomic, macroeconomic, and quality-related impacts of reforms across developing countries is lacking. This paper comprehensively...

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