development policies. Thus, this study tried to replicate estimation results from Mu and van de Walle ("Rural Roads and Local … the most estimates from Mu and van de Walle. He finds the positive effect of rural road on local market development. In …

.49 compared to their rural counterparts at 1 percent significance level. Women from highest income households are more likely to …, particularly for disadvantaged sections of the population like rural areas and the uneducated, should be targeted at specific …

) and subsidised food distribution scheme (PDS) in India for the prevalence of anaemia, examining whether individuals in … point expansion in programme scale. While the PDS seems to be more effective in reducing the incidence of mild anaemia than … suggest the MGNREGA and PDS may be substitutes - associated improvements in anaemia for regions with higher PDS access …

initiative of the UPA was the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA); a program which sought to protect … the livelihoods of the poor agricultural labourers during periods of distress, by granting adult members of every rural …-existing public distribution system (PDS), through which state governments offered subsidised food grains to the poor. After …

The public distribution system (PDS) has been one of the main policy instruments of the Government of India (GoI) to … population. But the existing PDS system has been highly "leaky", with large amounts of grains (40 to 50 percent) being pilfered … and diverted to open market. Also, the existing PDS delivers better in better-off states rather than in those where there …

highly variable with the biggest impact on millets. …How would climate change affect India's agriculture which accounts for sixty percent of employment? We study the impact …

factors constrain access to safe drinking water and proper sanitation in India for both the urban and rural poor, and that … their own water and sanitation schemes, not just in rural areas but in urban ones as well. There are definite advantages to …