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Can Conditional Cash Transfers Impact Institutional Deliveries? Evidence from Janani Suraksha Yojana in India
Dongre, Ambrish A. - 2013
impact of one of the largest CCTs in the world, Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) in India, on institutional deliveries. Maternal … mortality is high in India and JSY aims to reduce it by encouraging institutional deliveries through provision of monetary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089073
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Can conditional cash transfers impact institutional deliveries? : evidence from Janani Suraksha Yojana in India
Dongrea, Ambrish - 2012
impact of one of the largest CCTs in the world, Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) in India, on institutional deliveries. Maternal … mortality is high in India and JSY aims to reduce it by encouraging institutional deliveries through provision of monetary … ; maternal mortality ; institutional delivery ; conditional cash transfer ; India ; National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009700552
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Gimme shelter : social distancing and income support in times of pandemic
Aminjonov, Ulugbek; Bargain, Olivier; Bernard, Tanguy - 2021
Strict containment limits the spread of pandemics but is difficult to achieve when people must continue to work to avoid poverty. A new role is emerging for income support: by enabling people to effectively stay home, it can produce substantial health externalities. We examine this issue using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012802221
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Re-thinking social protection : from poverty alleviation to building resilience in middle-income households
Cossío, Diego Alejandro Vera; Hoffmann, Bridget; … - 2023
We exploit an expansion in social protection to middle-income households to provide evidence on how middle-income households cope with economic shocks and how to build their resilience. We use a regression discontinuity design around the eligibility cutoff for a program that delivered monthly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014458514
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Safety net for India's poor or waste of public funds? : poverty and welfare in the wake of the World's Largest Job Guarantee Program
Klonner, Stefan; Oldiges, Christian - 2014
This paper examines the effects of India's Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, currently the world …'s largest public employment program, on household consumption and poverty rates in rural India. Combining regionally coded data … find that for this group of households,which accounts for thirty percent of India's rural population, employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010362904
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Welfare dynamics in India over a quarter-century : poverty, vulnerability, and mobility, 1987-2012
Dang, Hai-Anh; Lanjouw, Peter - 2018
We analyse the Indian National Sample Survey data spanning the period 1987/88-2011/12 to uncover patterns of transition into and out of different classes of consumption distribution. At the aggregate level, income growth has accelerated, accompanied by accelerating poverty decline. Underlying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011955462
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Welfare dynamics in India over a quarter century : poverty, vulnerability, and mobility during 1987-2012
Dang, Hai-Anh; Lanjouw, Peter - 2020
We analyze the Indian National Sample Survey data spanning 1987/88–2011/12 to uncover patterns of transition into and out of different classes of the consumption distribution. At the aggregate level, income growth has accelerated, accompanied by accelerating poverty decline. Underlying these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012210760
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Welfare dynamics in India over a quarter century : poverty, vulnerability, and mobility during 1987-2012
Dang, Hai-Anh; Lanjouw, Peter - 2020
We analyze the Indian National Sample Survey data spanning 1987/88–2011/12 to uncover patterns of transition into and out of different classes of the consumption distribution. At the aggregate level, income growth has accelerated, accompanied by accelerating poverty decline. Underlying these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012211305
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Cash Transfers for Child Development : Experimental Evidence from India
Weaver, Jeffrey; Sukhtankar, Sandip; Niehaus, Paul; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Despite significant economic growth, child development outcomes in India remain poor. Using a large-scale experiment in … explanatory factor for the poor translation of increases in income into child growth in India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468293
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Between a rock and a hard place: poverty and COVID-19 in developing countries
Bargain, Olivier; Aminjonov, Ulugbek - 2020
In March 2020, shelter-in-place and social-distancing policies have been enforced or recommended all over the world to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. However, strict containment is hardly achievable in low-income countries, as large parts of population are forced to continue income-generating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228111