India that provide fall back mechanisms and evaluates how they compare with systems in selected comparator countries and …

In 2004, following the election of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA), India began to introduce a … emergence of these two initiatives in India. This includes the political and civil society imperatives that shaped the design … constitute the poorest inhabitants of rural India, have disproportionately benefitted from the MGNREGA, weakening traditional …

processes in three Asian countries (China, India and Indonesia) and on three different issues: violence against women, domestic …

We reconsider the relationship between oil and conflict, focusing on the location of oil resources. In a panel of 132 … countries over the period 1962-2009, we show that oil windfalls increase the probability of conflict in onshore-rich countries …, while they decrease this probability in offshore-rich countries. We use a simple model of conflict to illustrate how these …