Many countries adopted safety net programs to deal with the food crisis of 2008. However, such programs are often beset with targeting errors, inefficiencies, and fraud. Despite this, there is no systematic comparative analysis of safety nets. The objective of this paper is to identify generic...

The Indian media is full of reports about the layoffs due to the current slowdown in the economic growth partially caused by demonetization and poor implementation of the Good & Services Tax (GST). However, this paper focuses on the long run course of Indian development by asking why the process...