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Poverty, Undernutrition and Vulnerability in Rural India : Public Works Versus Food Subsidy
Jha, Raghbendra - 2011
public food subsidy programme, on consumption poverty, vulnerability and undernutrition in India drawing, on the large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134032
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008495961
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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
household data collected from three India states, Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra. In all three states, the poor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008480330
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National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, Poverty and Prices in Rural India
Gaiha, Raghav; Kulkarni, Vani S.; Pandey, Manoj K.; … - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2009
Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in India -a nation-wide poverty alleviation programme which was introduced in 2005. The focus …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005012107
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Poverty, Undernutrition and Vulnerability in Rural India: Public Works versus Food Subsidy
Jha, Raghbendra; Imai, Katsushi S.; Gaiha, Raghav - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2008
food subsidy programme, on consumption poverty, vulnerability and undernutrition in India drawing upon the large household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005106841
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Capture of Anti-Poverty Programs: An Analysis of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Program in India
Jha, Raghbendra; Bhattacharyya, Sambit; Gaiha, Raghav; … - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2008
Using pooled household level data for the Indian states of Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh we find that the size of landholdings is a negative predictor of participation in the National Rural Employment Guarantee Program (NREGP). In state level analysis this pattern survives in Rajasthan but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005106848
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Targeting Accuracy of the NREG: Evidence from Madhya Pradesh and Tamil Nadu
Jha, Raghbendra; Gaiha, Raghav; Shankar, Shylashri; … - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010
This paper focuses on the targeting accuracy of NREG in two Indian states, Madhya Pradesh (MP) and Tamil Nadu (TN), based on household data for 2008–09. In order to overcome the difficulties arising from the use of a headcount index and a specific poverty threshold, stochastic dominance tests...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008676599
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National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, poverty and prices in rural India
Gaiha, Raghav; Kulkarni, Vani S.; Pandey, Manoj K.; … - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003852082
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Information and corruption :the national rural employment guarantee scheme in India
Shankar, Shylashri; Gaiha, Raghav; Jha, Raghbendra - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003940999
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Targeting accuracy of the NREG : evidence from Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra
Gaiha, Raghav; Shankar, Shylashri; Jha, Raghbendra - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941001