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– Theory and some evidence from India
Using the lens of a life-cycle model, we argue that an administrative failure of a wage payment delay in a workfare programme could adversely affect the welfare of the poor through two channels. First, it imposes an implicit consumption tax on the household. Second, it changes the status of labour...
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– Experimental evidence from an information dissemination intervention
This study assesses the impact of an information dissemination intervention on the local-level implementation of the rural public works program in India. One key feature of the intervention is to provide information to workers once their wages get credited into their accounts. Using administrative...
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– Evidence from India
Crimes against the historically marginalized Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (SC and ST) by the upper castes in India represent an extreme form of prejudice and discrimination. In this paper, we investigate whether changes in relative material standards of living between the SCs/STs and upper...
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Achieving the Millennium Development Goals
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– A Comparison of the Experiences of India and China
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Food Insecurity, Vulnerability and Human Rights Failure
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– Lessons from the Right to Food Movement in India
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Food Insecurity, Vulnerability and Human Rights Failure
Book Chapter
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Linking the Formal and Informal Economy
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– Testing Theories of Risk-Sharing in the ICRISAT Study Region of South India
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Insurance Against Poverty
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– Political Activism, Community Identity, and Group Behaviour
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Group Behaviour and Development
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The Political Economy of Hunger
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The Political Economy of Hunger
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– Coping with Seasonality and Calamity in Rural India
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Social Security in Developing Countries
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