development policies. Thus, this study tried to replicate estimation results from Mu and van de Walle ("Rural Roads and Local … the most estimates from Mu and van de Walle. He finds the positive effect of rural road on local market development. In …

The public distribution system (PDS) has been one of the main policy instruments of the Government of India (GoI) to … population. But the existing PDS system has been highly "leaky", with large amounts of grains (40 to 50 percent) being pilfered … and diverted to open market. Also, the existing PDS delivers better in better-off states rather than in those where there …

initiative of the UPA was the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA); a program which sought to protect … the livelihoods of the poor agricultural labourers during periods of distress, by granting adult members of every rural …-existing public distribution system (PDS), through which state governments offered subsidised food grains to the poor. After …