Between 2004/2005 and 2009/2010 there was a sharp fall in female labor force participation (LFP) in rural India. Why …

of methodological approaches - factor content, growth accounting and econometric modelling. We also compare India …

large dams in India. To account for endogenous placement of dams we use GIS data and the fact that river gradient affects a … estimates suggest that large dam construction in India is a marginally cost-effective investment with significant distributional …

The caste system - a system of elaborately stratified social hierarchy - distinguishes India from most other societies … India, with Dalits or Scheduled Castes (SC) clustered in occupations that were the least well paid and most degrading in … terms of manual labour. Along with the Scheduled Tribes (STs), the SCs have the highest incidence of poverty in India, with …

The caste system - a system of elaborately stratified social hierarchy - distinguishes India from most other societies … India, with Dalits or Scheduled Castes (SC) clustered in occupations that were the least well paid and most degrading in … terms of manual labour. Along with the Scheduled Tribes (STs), the SCs have the highest incidence of poverty in India, with …