In this essay - Social Capital and Poverty Reduction Strategies: The Case of Rural India, Claudio Cecchi, Luca Molinas … strategies enhanced by international agencies in rural India. The authors argue that the role plaid by social capital in … inequality, both in general terms and with reference to rural India. Finally, they focus on a few examples of development …

This paper shows that the Government of India supported microfinance program under Swarnajayanti Grameen Swarojgari …

its components on a unique data set this paper demonstrates that in rural India household vulnerability is most explained …

Using ARIS/REDS data set for 2006 for rural India this paper models household vulnerability as expected utility and its …

and hygienic accommodation to its citizens remains one of the most serious challenges India is facing today. The problem … requirements of housing in rural India, present government initiatives and most importantly the technological requirements for … shelter to all. Throughout the discussion, a person without a permanent house (as defined in Census of India 2001) is referred …

-beneficiaries) through a structured questionnaire from Sonepur district of Odisha (India). A livelihood security index (LSI) is constructed …

workers separately. We use household level national data for rural India for the period January to June 1994. We use robust …