Affirmative action has been at the heart of public policies towards the socially disadvantaged in India. Compensatory …

enterprises in India. Female-owned firms are on average 45 per cent less productive than male-owned firms, with the clearest …

) of the Government of India. We argue that a chronic friction of wage payment delay in this flagship programme could …

claim there were long-lasting effects of the institutions established in British India on a variety of development outcomes … development in India rests on fragile historical and statistical foundations …

allocation of funds for India's largest social protection programme, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in … the state of West Bengal in India, and whether incumbent local governments (village councils) gain electorally in the …

We examine the political economy causes of India's growth acceleration in the early 1990s, the periods of high growth … (Pritchett and Werker 2013) and periodisation of growth episodes (Kar et al. 2013a). We argue that India's post-reform growth …

vice versa) and from lower-tier to upper-tier informal jobs using a longitudinal dataset for India. We find that self …