Documents & Reports
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Is workfare cost-effective against poverty in a poor labor-surplus economy? (English)
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...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS6673 Document Date: October 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Murgai,Rinku,Ravallion,Martin,Van De Walle,Dominique
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Testing information constraints on India's largest antipoverty program (English)
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...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS6598 Document Date: September 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ravallion,Martin,Van De Walle,Dominique,Dutta,Puja Vasudeva,Murgai,Rinku