's largest public employment program, on household consumption and poverty rates in rural India. Combining regionally coded data … opportunities under the scheme have cut poverty during the agricultural lean season by as much as one half while we find no effect …

for an appropriate choice of strategy of growth with redistribution for removing poverty …This paper evaluates the effects of different growth and redistributive policies on poverty and growth using a two …-period consistency type closed-loop planning model that captures interdependence between growth and redistribution. Focusing on fix- flex …