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  • For India's rural poor, growing towns matter more than growing cities (anglais)

    It is theoretically ambiguous whether growth of cities matters more to the rural poor than growth of towns. This paper empirically examines whether growth of India's secondary towns or big cities mattered...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7994 Date du document: 6 mars 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Gibson,John,Datt,Gaurav,Murgai,Rinku,Ravallion,Martin

  • For India’s rural poor, growing towns matter more than growing cities (anglais)

    It is theoretically ambiguous whether growth of cities matters more to the rural poor than growth of towns. This paper empirically examines whether growth of India’s secondary towns or big cities mattered...

    Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 125650 Date du document: 1 mars 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Gibson,John,Datt,Gaurav,Murgai,Rinku,Ravallion,Martin

  • Looking back on two decades of poverty and well-being in India (anglais)

    This paper provides an overview of poverty and well-being trends in India since the mid-1990s. Poverty reduction since 2005 has been much faster than the earlier decade, as a result of broad-based growth...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7626 Date du document: 7 avril 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Narayan,Ambar,Murgai,Rinku

  • Looking back on two decades of poverty and well‐being in India (anglais)

    This paper provides an overview of poverty and well-being trends in India since the mid-1990s. Poverty reduction since 2005 has been much faster than the earlier decade, as a result of broad-based growth...

    Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 125659 Date du document: 1 avril 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Narayan,Ambar,Murgai,Rinku

  • Why did poverty decline in India ? a nonparametric decomposition exercise (anglais)

    This paper uses panel data to analyze factors that contributed to the rapid decline in poverty in India between 2005 and 2012. The analysis employs a nonparametric decomposition method that measures the...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7602 Date du document: 15 mars 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Balcazar Salazar,Carlos Felipe,Desai,Sonal,Murgai,Rinku,Narayan,Ambar

  • Why did poverty decline in India? : a nonparametric decomposition exercise (anglais)

    This paper uses panel data to analyze factors that contributed to the rapid decline in poverty in India between 2005 and 2012. The analysis employs a nonparametric decomposition method that measures the...

    Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 125506 Date du document: 1 mars 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Balcázar,Carlos Felipe,Desai,Sonal,Murgai,Rinku,Narayan,Ambar

  • Growth, urbanization, and poverty reduction in India (anglais)

    Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of a newly-constructed data set of poverty measures for India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. The...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7568 Date du document: 17 février 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Datt,Gaurav,Ravallion,Martin,Murgai,Rinku

  • Growth, urbanization, and poverty reduction in India (anglais)

    Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of a newly-constructed data set of poverty measures for India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. The...

    Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 125504 Date du document: 1 février 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Datt,Gaurav,Ravallion,Martin,Murgai,Rinku


  • Job opportunities along the rural-urban gradation and female labor force participation in India (anglais)

    The recent decline in India’s rural female labor force participation is generally attributed to higher rural incomes in a patriarchal society. Together with the growing share of the urban population, where...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7412 Date du document: 15 septembre 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Chatterjee,Urmila,Murgai,Rinku,Rama,Martin G.


  • Is workfare cost-effective against poverty in a poor labor-surplus economy (anglais)

    Workfare has often seemed an attractive option for making self-targeted transfers to poor people. But is this incentive argument strong enough in practice to prefer unproductive workfare to even untargeted...

    Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 129197 Date du document: 5 août 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Murgai,Rinku,Ravallion,Martin,Van De Walle,Dominique

  • Right to work? : assessing India's employment guarantee scheme in Bihar (anglais)

    In 2006, India embarked on an ambitious attempt to fight poverty by attempting to introduce a wage floor in a setting in which many unskilled workers earn less than the minimum wage. The 2005 national...

    Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 85414 Date du document: 1 février 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Dutta,Puja Vasudeva,Murgai,Rinku,Ravallion,Martin,Van De Walle,Dominique

  • Is workfare cost-effective against poverty in a poor labor-surplus economy? (anglais)

    Workfare schemes impose work requirements on beneficiaries. This has seemed an attractive idea for self-targeting transfers to poor people. This incentive argument does not imply, however, that workfare...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6673 Date du document: 1 octobre 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Murgai,Rinku,Ravallion,Martin,Van De Walle,Dominique

  • Testing information constraints on India's largest antipoverty program (anglais)

    Public knowledge about India's ambitious Employment Guarantee Scheme is low in one of India's poorest states, Bihar, where participation is also unusually low. Is the solution simply to tell people their...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6598 Date du document: 1 septembre 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ravallion,Martin,Van De Walle,Dominique,Dutta,Puja Vasudeva,Murgai,Rinku


  • Does India's employment guarantee scheme guarantee employment ? (anglais)

    In 2005 India introduced an ambitious national anti-poverty program, now called the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. The program offers up to 100 days of unskilled manual labor...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6003 Date du document: 1 mars 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Dutta,Puja Vasudeva,Murgai,Rinku,Ravallion,Martin,Van De Walle,Dominique

  • Perspectives on poverty in India : stylized facts from survey data (Vol. 1 of 2) : Main report (anglais)

    This report's objective is to develop the evidence base for policy making in relation to poverty reduction. It produces a diagnosis of the broad nature of the poverty problem and its trends in India, focusing...

    Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 57428 Date du document: 13 avril 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Crost,Benjamin,Das,Jishnu,Das,Maitreyi B,Datt,Gaurav,Deaton,Angus S.,Dercon,Stefan,Dubey,Amaresh,Dutta,Puja Vasudeva,Hall,Gillette H.,Himanshu,Rai,Jaison,Shiny,Joddar,Pinaki,Mehta,Soumya Kapoor,Kapur, Davesh,Krutikova, Sonya,Lanjouw,Peter F.,May,Ernesto,Murgai,Rinku,Nikitin,Denis,Pigato,Miria A.,Rascon Ramirez,Ericka G.,Ravallion,Martin,Sadoulet,Elisabeth Marie L.,Soni,Rita,Sriram,Jyoti,Vishwanath,Tara,Witsoe,Jeffrey Lawrence,Yoshida,Nobuo,Zagha,N. Roberto,De Janvry,Alain F.

  • Poverty and social exclusion in India (Vol. 1 of 2) : Main report (anglais)

    The report is organized around three chapters, in addition to this overview, each one dealing with an excluded group: Scheduled Tribe (ST), Scheduled Caste (SC), and women. The objective is to provide...

    Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 61314 Date du document: 12 avril 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Badda,John Prakash,Burra,Neera,Cooper,Gertrude,Das, Maitreyi Bordia,Desai,Sonalde,Dubey,Amaresh,Dutta,Puja Vasudeva,Hall,Gillette H.,Iversen,Vegard,Joddar,Pinaki,Johnson,Kiersten Blair,Kalwij, Adriaan,Mehta,Soumya Kapoor,Kebede, Bereket,Lanjouw,Peter F.,Murgai,Rinku,Nikitin,Denis,Noon, James,Pradhan,Sujata Jayant,Rashid,Mansoora,Sharif,Iffath Anwar,Talukdar,Tanusree,Vanneman, Reeve,Verschoor, Arjan,Witsoe,Jeffrey Lawrence,Zagha,N. Roberto