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Substantial fiscal consolidation was achieved under the aegis of the 2003 Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act. While deficits widened anew in 2008 and 2009, against the backdrop of the global financial and economic crisis, efforts to reduce them have resumed since. To ensure...
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Employment elasticity with respect to agriculture value added in South Asia has weakened in recent years. While crop diversification has grown and value added per hectare also grew, employment growth was sluggish. However, the linkages between farm and non-farm employment remain strong. Drawing...
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Critics argue that India’s mismanaged Public Distribution System (PDS), which sells subsidized cereals to poor families, should be replaced by cash transfers. Others fear cash may be misused. Using National Sample Survey data, this paper demonstrates that families treat additional PDS...
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Using National Sample Survey data for rural India we examine the incidence of capture in two workfare programs in rural India: the Rural Public Works and the Food for Work Programs for 1993-94 and 2004-05 respectively. We discover a high degree of program capture among the general population....
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participants by poverty status, their duration of participation, and earnings from it are used. The analysis is based on primary …
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Although a workfare scheme is potentially a cost-effective poverty alleviation scheme as it attracts only the poor who …
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continuing controversy in India over poverty lines, we use a framework that rigorously assesses the impact of growth on the poor … over a range of poverty lines. Using National sample Surveys on consumption expenditure, we show that while growth has …
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A partir de estimaciones de crecimiento del gasto per cápita, pobreza y desigualdad para los años 1981, 1993 y 2007, el estudio encuentra que si bien la desigualdad del gasto per cápita entre individuos (medida por los coeficientes de Gini o de Theil) muestra una ligera tendencia a la baja,...
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-relevant work on poverty measurement. The paper also presents results on empirical exercises comparing trends in inequality, and … various poverty lines in India in the recent past. The paper concludes with policy observations on economic reforms in India …, and directions for further empirical research on poverty. …
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likely effects on poverty, inequality, and economic mobility. While poverty has declined, inequality has remained relatively … high and stable over nearly four decades. In this paper, for the first time, we examine poverty and inequality in a dynamic …. Focusing on the dynamics of poverty, we distinguish between short- and long-term poor and between chronic and transient poverty …
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