The extent to which India's poor have benefited from the country’s economic growth has long been debated. This paper …

large dams in India. To account for endogenous placement of dams we use GIS data and the fact that river gradient affects a … the dam benefit from increased irrigation and see agricultural production increase and poverty fall. Overall, our … estimates suggest that large dam construction in India is a marginally cost-effective investment with significant distributional …

There has been much debate about how much India's poor have shared in the economic growth unleashed by economic reforms … in the 1990s. Datt and Ravallion argue that India has probably maintained its 1980s rate of poverty reduction in the 1990 … understanding why economic growth has not done more for India's poor. India's economic growth in the 1990s has not been occurring in …

methods to assess dimensional contributions to poverty. An empirical illustration for India highlights distinctive features of …