India. This paper opens a debate on participation and poverty of dalits in India’s social and economic spheres by … domination, protested several sources of deprivation, political powerlessness, exploitation and poverty. These protests and …, physical violence and abject poverty. Around 50 per cent of the quantum of welfare measures is still unfulfilled. We need to …

Administrative failures in anti-poverty programmes are widespread in developing countries. We focus on one such … administrative failure - the persistent delay in paying beneficiaries on time in India’s iconic anti-poverty programme, the National … Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA). Using a life cycle model, we argue that a long wage payment lag in this flagship …

participation deficit associated with disability is large, I provide results that are a relief to policy-makers. I use an event … in disability-friendly ramps within schools. …

's largest public employment program, on household consumption and poverty rates in rural India. Combining regionally coded data …This paper examines the effects of India's Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, currently the world … find that for this group of households,which accounts for thirty percent of India's rural population, employment …

Distribution System (PDS) and the Mid Day Meal Scheme (MDM) - on poverty outcomes and on nutritional intake. This paper offers a … the significant impact of the PDS and MDM in terms of poverty reduction and calorie intake. While there are large … also contributed significantly to poverty reduction. Almost half of the poverty reduction in the distribution …

We measure multidimensional poverty in India using National Sample Survey Organization data from 2014-15 to 2017-18. We ….75 per cent over the study period. The all-India estimates indicate that 144 million people were lifted from poverty during …. Our state-level estimates reveal that 20 states report less than 10 per cent headcount poverty, up from six states. COVID …

We exploit the implementation of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme to identify exogenous shifts in …

meaningful employment, are becoming increasingly popular in developing countries. The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act …