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Safety net for India's poor or waste of public funds? : poverty and welfare in the wake of the World's Largest Job Guarantee Program
Klonner, Stefan; Oldiges, Christian - 2014
'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 …
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Poverty and food security in India
Himanshu - 2013
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010192329
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Why guarantee employment? : evidence from a large Indian public-works program
Zimmermann, Laura - 2020
Most countries around the world implement some form of a safety net program for poor households. A widespread concern is that such programs crowd out private-sector jobs. But they could also improve workers' welfare by allowing them to take on more risk, for example through self-employment. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012195155
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Old-Age Pensions and Female Labour Supply in India
Unnikrishnan, Vidhya of; Sen, Kunal - 2021
Whether cash transfers have unintended behavioural effects on the recipient household’s labour supply is of considerable policy interest. We examine the impact’ of the Indira Gandhi National Old-Age Pension Scheme (IGNOAPS) on prime-age women’s labour supply decisions in India, where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013222424
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Old-age pensions and female labour supply in India
Unnikrishnan, Vidhya; Sen, Kunal - 2020
Whether cash transfers have unintended behavioural effects on the recipient household's labour supply is of considerable policy interest. We examine the 'intent to treat effect' of the Indira Gandhi National Old-Age Pension Scheme on prime-age women's labour supply decisions in India, where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012240357
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Poverty, Undernutrition and Vulnerability in Rural India : Public Works Versus Food Subsidy
Jha, Raghbendra - 2011
public food subsidy programme, on consumption poverty, vulnerability and undernutrition in India drawing, on the large … evaluating the effects of RPW or PDS on poverty. We found significant and negative effects of household participation in RPW and … food for work programmes on poverty, undernutrition (e.g. protein) and vulnerability in 1993 and 2004. Indeed, poverty and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134032
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Poverty and Food Security in India
2013
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076446
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Participatory Governance and Pro-Poor Targeting : Evidence from Central India
Kumar, Neha - 2009
This paper studies the impact of a community-driven development program, District Poverty Initiatives Project (DPIP …), implemented in the second largest state in India. In particular, it examines the impact on allocation of Below Poverty Line (BPL …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012765799
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Targeting of social transfers : are India's elderly poor left behind?
Asri, Viola - 2017
the transparency of social pension allocation were indeed achieved, such that possession of the Below Poverty Line ration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011723774
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Administrative failures in anti-poverty programmes and household welfare : an investigation of India's employment guarantee programme
Basu, Parantap; Raj, Rajesh S. N.; Sen, Kunal - 2020
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 … performance of an anti-poverty programme - such as higher NREGA participation of rural households - would be misleading because it …
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