Over the past sixty years, the concept of development has expanded from economic growth and investment, to poverty … their own right but are very much interrelated. National development experience shows the importance of investment and … different development aspects: the importance of investment, infrastructure, and human capital to growth and poverty reduction …

We examine the returns from owning cows and buffaloes in rural India. We estimate that when valuing labor at market …

Between 2004/2005 and 2009/2010 there was a sharp fall in female labor force participation (LFP) in rural India. Why …

random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed …

rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that the disadvantage suffered by two historically … the SC and the ST households must remain a focus of attention besides promoting a more active labor market in rural India. …

by addressing the subsidies and cost recovery of the existing tariff policy in the context of Uttar Pradesh (UP), India …

This paper develops a new methodology to analyze how parents in Rajasthan, India make choices about their daughters … investment in their daughters' schooling. While parents would prefer to delay a daughters' marriage until at least age 18, a …

We use data for 436 rural districts from the 2001 Census of India to examine whether different aspects of social … divisions help explain the wide variation in access to tap water across rural India. Studies linking social fragmentation to … for access to tap water in rural India. Communities that are heterogeneous in terms of caste (within the majority Hindu …

We study the impact of loan regulation in rural India on child labor with an overlapping-generations model of formal …

Economic growth in China and India has attracted many headlines recently. As a result, the literature comparing the two … the regions of China and India over the past twenty years. It also provides an assessment of regional disparity in the two …