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Fiscal Prospects and Reforms in India
Herd, Richard; Hill, Sam; Koen, Vincent - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2011
Substantial fiscal consolidation was achieved under the aegis of the 2003 Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act. While deficits widened anew in 2008 and 2009, against the backdrop of the global financial and economic crisis, efforts to reduce them have resumed since. To ensure...
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Prospects of Non-Farm Employment and Welfare in Rural Areas
Kaur, Simrit; Kulkarni, Vani S.; Gaiha, Raghav; Pandey, … - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010
Employment elasticity with respect to agriculture value added in South Asia has weakened in recent years. While crop diversification has grown and value added per hectare also grew, employment growth was sluggish. However, the linkages between farm and non-farm employment remain strong. Drawing...
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Is the PDS Already a Cash Transfer? Rethinking India's Food Subsidy Policies
Balasubramanian, Sujata - HKUST Institute for Emerging Market Studies (IEMS), … - 2015
Critics argue that India’s mismanaged Public Distribution System (PDS), which sells subsidized cereals to poor families, should be replaced by cash transfers. Others fear cash may be misused. Using National Sample Survey data, this paper demonstrates that families treat additional PDS...
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Targeting Accuracy of the NREG: Evidence from Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra
Gaiha, Raghav; Shankar, Shylashri; Jha, Raghbendra - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010
participants by poverty status, their duration of participation, and earnings from it are used. The analysis is based on primary …
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Timing of Capture of Anti-poverty Programs: Rural Public Works and Food for Work Programs in Rural India
Jha, Raghbendra; Bhattacharyya, Sambit; Gaiha, Raghav - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2009
Using National Sample Survey data for rural India we examine the incidence of capture in two workfare programs in rural India: the Rural Public Works and the Food for Work Programs for 1993-94 and 2004-05 respectively. We discover a high degree of program capture among the general population....
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Targeting versus Universalism: An Evaluation of Indirect Effects of the Employment Guarantee Scheme in India
Imai, Katsushi - Department of Economics, Royal Holloway University of London - 2004
Although a workfare scheme is potentially a cost-effective poverty alleviation scheme as it attracts only the poor who …
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Child Rights Convention and its Implementation
Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
of poverty on child labour and child soldier. An attempt is made in this article to highlight and critically examine the …
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Ethnicity, Caste and Religion: Implications for Poverty Outcomes
Thorat, Amit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
In the factors that affect income and poverty outcomes, there are some features unique to India. Caste, ethnicity …, religion and even regional origins all influence income outcomes. Therefore while examining individual poverty, the influence …
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On the Deprivation of Basic Amenities in Rural India: An Analysis of Census 2001
Motkuri, Venkatanarayana; Joe, William - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
The present paper is an attempt to examine the levels of deprivation of rural people in terms of their access to basic amenities like, housing, drinking water, sanitation etc. And also it evaluates the degree of relative disadvantage of rural people when compared with their urban counterparts....
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Regional Disparities in Poverty and Education in India
Sivakumar, Marimuthu; Vijay, M - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
said that expanding educational facilities and improving quality of education are key instruments and reducing poverty is a … poverty and education and many more international studies revealed that improvement in education reducing poverty resulted in … regional balanced development. This paper aims to analyze the regional disparities in reducing poverty and increase in literacy …
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