Contributed articles presented at the Seminar on Managing Urban Poverty in India on March 2-3, 2006 at New Delhi …

This book focuses on the issue of financial exclusion with particular reference to the urban informal sector in India …. Continuing the work of its predecessor, the current Government of India is also placing considerable importance on driving policy … analysis of the unit record data on nature and extent of financial inclusion and access to credit in urban India, based on Debt …

This article provides new evidence that family planning programs are associated with a decrease in the share of … children and adults living in poverty. Our research design exploits the county roll-out of US family planning programs in the … data. We find that cohorts born after federal family planning programs began were less likely to live in poverty in …