A number of developing country governments have introduced ambitious anti-poverty programs in recent years, but the … also benefit. The government payoff from implementing a large anti-poverty program may therefore be short-lived unless …

paper tests whether longer program exposure has a causal effect on election outcomes in the context of a large anti-poverty … program in India. Using a regression-discontinuity framework, the results show that length of program exposure lowers …

"Poverty and income inequality remain a stubborn challenge in Asia and the Pacific despite the region’s rapid economic … expansion in previous decades, which lifted millions out of poverty. Financial inclusion is often considered as a critical … between financial inclusion, poverty, and income inequality at the country level will help policymakers design and implement …

'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 …

In recent decades the Indian subcontinent has displayed remarkable invariance in the incidence of working poverty … despite strong economic performance. It is widely held that education can rescue households from various types of poverty … though social deviance in acquiring education can throw subjects into abject poverty. In particular, the paper examines the …