India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) has been hailed as one of the country’s most creative social …

public food subsidy programme, on consumption poverty, vulnerability and undernutrition in India drawing, on the large …

its components on a unique data set this paper demonstrates that in rural India household vulnerability is most explained …

Using a unique panel data for rural India for the periods 1999 and 2006, this paper models vulnerability to poverty. We … quantify household vulnerability in rural India in 1999 and 2006, investigate the determinants of ex post poverty as well as ex … policy variables which can be targeted to reduce the incidence of vulnerability in rural India …

program, anywhere. Using a unique data set for rural India this paper addresses the question of whether households bribe …

growth in rural India. This paper attempts to fill this lacuna by providing certainty equivalent growth of consumption in 14 … major states of India over the period 1958-1997, corresponding to NSS Rounds 13th to 53rd. The extant debates around poverty … that certainty equivalent consumption growth in rural India has been much lower than average real per capita consumption …

. Using a unique data set for rural India this paper addresses the question of whether households bribe elected officials …

The political economy of India's economic growth is an issue of abiding interest. Higher and sustained economic growth …. Further, given that it is a functioning democracy, economic policy in India can often be dictated by political expediency as … of India's recent growth experience exist (Rodrik and Subrahmanian, 2004, Kelkar, 2004, and Thirlwell, 2004 are three …