Contract Farming is operational in India for the last couple of years and an increase in the number of corporates … entering the field has been witnessed. This has generated a debate over the effectiveness of the agribusiness model in …

in workfare programs, particularly in India. Using a unique data set for the Indian state of Rajasthan for 2009–10, this …

The Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) – the largest food subsidy program in India – has been a dismal failure …

Vietnam and India. To take account of sample selection bias associated with it, we have applied treatment-effects model. It is … the rural non-farm employment in both Vietnam and India – which is consistent with its poverty reducing role of accessing … – with the aggregate effect larger in Vietnam than in India. Access to the rural non-farm employment significantly reduces …

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 1993-1994 and 2004-2005 respectively. We discover a high …

’s, domestic violence, and autonomy is related to children’s nutritional status using the three rounds of NFHS data in India. First …