Administrative failures in anti-poverty programmes are widespread in developing countries. We focus on one such … administrative failure - the persistent delay in paying beneficiaries on time in India’s iconic anti-poverty programme, the National … Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA). Using a life cycle model, we argue that a long wage payment lag in this flagship …

and channels with respect to income inequality, poverty, education, and health. To date, this area has received less … levels of resource rents can end up with significantly different achievements in terms of poverty, inequality, health, and …

This paper investigates gender inequality in vulnerable employment: forms of employment typically featuring high … inequalities in vulnerable employment. Conditional on individual and household characteristics, women are 7 percentage points more … likely to be in vulnerable employment than men. The experiences of marriage and parenthood are important drivers of this …

In this paper we revisit the debate on the role of industrialisation in employment generation and poverty reduction in … substitution through protection and state intervention has outlived its usefulness and growth prospects and poverty alleviation … though employment generation are greatly enhanced by industrialization through greater integration into the international …