Promotion of self-employment is one of the ways in which the Government of India has been trying to alleviate poverty …

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

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