poverty and child poverty estimates in five middle-income countries (India, Mexico, South Africa, Russian Federation and Peru …There is a wide agreement among poverty research community that conventional estimates of poverty (i.e., money … overestimate total household expenditure, which results in an underestimation of poverty measured in terms of household expenditure …

'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 …

short and medium-term poverty and welfare effects of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. Triple difference …

administrative failure - the persistent delay in paying beneficiaries on time in India’s iconic anti-poverty programme, the National …Administrative failures in anti-poverty programmes are widespread in developing countries. We focus on one such … performance of an anti-poverty programme - such as higher NREGA participation of rural households - would be misleading because it …