The extent to which India's poor have benefited from the country’s economic growth has long been debated. This paper …

In 2005 India introduced an ambitious national anti-poverty program, now called the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural … the way it is designed, then anyone who wanted work on the scheme would get it. However, analysis of data from India …

theoretically ambiguous implications for the impacts on poverty. In the case of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme …

The paper examines the ways in which recent economic growth has been uneven in China and India and what this has meant … development. The authors argue that the development paths of both China and India have been influenced by, and have generated …

There has been much debate about how much India's poor have shared in the economic growth unleashed by economic reforms … in the 1990s. Datt and Ravallion argue that India has probably maintained its 1980s rate of poverty reduction in the 1990 … understanding why economic growth has not done more for India's poor. India's economic growth in the 1990s has not been occurring in …

December 1999 - Nonfarm economic growth in India had very different effects on poverty in different states. Nonfarm … and Datt use 20 household surveys for India's 15 major states, spanning 1960-94, to study how initial conditions and the …