banking services to maximum number of people is unsuccessful as a poverty reduction strategy. As a poverty reduction strategy …Financial inclusion is the broad based delivery of banking and other financial services at affordable cost to the … poorest sections of society. In India, financial inclusion emphasizes to include maximum number of people under formal …

absolute economic misery in the world. In this paper, I focus on an important but relatively underemphasized approach to … poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the labour market for the work they do, so that they can buy the goods and … services they need to move up out of poverty. …

We examine the impact of political reservation for disadvantaged minority groups on poverty. To address the concern … that political reservation is endogenous in the relationship between poverty and reservation, we take advantage of the … state-time variation in reservation in state legislative assemblies in India that arises from national policies that cause …

terms of manual labour. Along with the Scheduled Tribes (STs), the SCs have the highest incidence of poverty in India, with …The caste system – a system of elaborately stratified social hierarchy – distinguishes India from most other societies … India, with Dalits or Scheduled Castes (SC) clustered in occupations that were the least well paid and most degrading in …

health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is … more clearly relevant. Using state-level panel data for India, we contribute the first estimates of the impact of changes … in poverty on infant survival. We identify a significant within-state relationship which persists conditional upon state …

There are severe inequalities in health in the world, poor health being concentrated amongst poor people in poor … specifications similar to those in the existing literature, this paper finds a similar result for India, which is that state health …

microfinance type based on the major factors determining micro, small and medium enterprises' access to credit from microfinance … institutions in the era of financial liberalization. The data for the study were gleaned from fourteen microfinance institutions … rationing is not influenced by the microfinance types but by the individual microfinance institutions. …

Microcredit is an innovative financial tool designed to reduce poverty and fix credit market imperfections. We use … experimental measures of time discounting and risk aversion for villagers in south India to highlight behavioral features of …