- as long as payments are done in cash - the money is ready to be spent. We test our hypothesis in rural India, with …

This paper estimates and decomposes multidimensional poverty in 82 natural regions in India using unit data from the … poverty at the sub-national level. Results indicate that 43% of India's population are multidimensional poor with large … regional variations. The average intensity of poverty was 45.5% with a MPI value of 19.3. Six states in India …

toward rising middle class of Asia. To successfully implement the new initiative of “Make in India”, India needs to be … service networks will grow and contribute to the rapid growth in China, India, and Southeast Asian countries, especially from … India's perspective. It also examines the trends and patterns; and prospects of integration as well as the prospects for …

gender wage gaps among Regular Wage/Salaried (RWS) workers in India, both at the mean, as well as along the entire wage …

We examine educational transmission between fathers (mothers) and daughters in India for daughters born during 1962 …') educational distribution. We also find that "Equality of Opportunity" remains an elusive goal for India. Not only the probability …

societies. Religious riots have claimed more than 14,000 lives in India since 1950. We study the effect of Hindu-Muslim riots on … election results in India. We combine data on riots, which have been geo-coded, with electoral data on state legislature … states in India over a 21 year period from 1981-2001. We suggest a new instrument that draws upon the random variation in the …

India. …

Using the 2004-05 India Human Development Survey data, we estimate and decompose the earnings of household businesses …