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Productivity response to a contract change
Jayaraman, Rajshri; Ray, Debraj; Véricout, Francis de - 2014
This paper studies the productivity impact of a contract change for tea pluckers in an Indian plantation. The contract, implemented at the end of a three-year cycle in which contracts are generally revised, was (a) the joint outcome of negotiations between twenty unions and plantations, (b)...
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Household's expenditure in health and education : effects on poverty and child poverty estimates in five middle income countries : India, Mexico, South Africa, Russian Federation a...
Ait Mansour, Hicham - 2016
poverty and child poverty estimates in five middle-income countries (India, Mexico, South Africa, Russian Federation and Peru …
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Do flexible repayment schedules improve the impact of microcredit? : evidence from a randomized evaluation in rural India
Czura, Kristina - 2015
potential welfare loss. Using data from a randomized evaluation with dairy farmers in rural India, we test the impact of …
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The effect of the US biofuels mandate on poverty in India
Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Hubert, Marie-Hélène; Ural … - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011712949
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Can social safety nets protect public health? : the effect of India's workfare and foodgrain subsidy programmes on anaemia
Narayanan, S.; Gerber, Nicolas; Rathore, Udayan; … - 2017
) and subsidised food distribution scheme (PDS) in India for the prevalence of anaemia, examining whether individuals in …
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Payments infrastructure and the performance of public programs : evidence from biometric smartcards in India
Muralidharan, Karthik; Niehaus, Paul; Sukhtankar, Sandip - 2014
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National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, poverty and prices in rural India
Gaiha, Raghav; Kulkarni, Vani S.; Pandey, Manoj K.; … - 2009
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Reducing vulnerability through microfinance : evidence from Indian self help group program
Swain, Ranjula Bali; Floro, Maria Sagrario - 2010
We investigate if participation in Indian Self Help Group microfinance program (SHG) results in reducing vulnerability. Vulnerability estimates are constructed using crosssectional SHG rural household survey data, collected in 2003. The potential selection bias is eliminated by propensity score...
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Is caste destiny? : occupational diversification among dalits in rural India
Gang, Ira N.; Sen, Kunal; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2011
The caste system - a system of elaborately stratified social hierarchy - distinguishes India from most other societies … India, with Dalits or Scheduled Castes (SC) clustered in occupations that were the least well paid and most degrading in … terms of manual labour. Along with the Scheduled Tribes (STs), the SCs have the highest incidence of poverty in India, with …
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Is caste destiny? : occupational diversification among dalits in rural India
Gang, Ira N.; Sen, Kunal; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2012
The caste system - a system of elaborately stratified social hierarchy - distinguishes India from most other societies … India, with Dalits or Scheduled Castes (SC) clustered in occupations that were the least well paid and most degrading in … terms of manual labour. Along with the Scheduled Tribes (STs), the SCs have the highest incidence of poverty in India, with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530299