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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    March, 2014
    India, Southern Asia

    Industrial parks are as popular as they are controversial, in India and globally. At their best they align infrastructure provision and agglomeration economies to jolt industrial growth. More often, they generate negative spill-overs, provide handouts, sit empty, or simply do not get built. This paper disaggregates how parks are built and how they fail. It contextualizes parks in India, followed by a thick case study of an innovative scheme that appears to buck the trend.

  2. Library Resource
    June, 2013
    India

    The report analyzes poverty incidence in
    India and in particular, in Uttar Pradesh (UP), and defines
    its poverty levels, trends, and vulnerability. While UP once
    appeared positioned to be the pace-setter for India's
    economic, and social development in light of its rich
    potential in human, and natural resources, economic growth
    faltered in the 1990s. UP fell behind India's better
    performing states, and, despite a recent acceleration in

  3. Library Resource
    India - Mumbai Urban Transport Project : Guidance Note on Urban Resettlement cover image
    Manuals & Guidelines
    March, 2012
    India

    The purpose of this guidance note is to
    bridge precisely identify how to implement World Bank
    resettlement policies in the context of infrastructure
    projects affecting South Asian largest cities, with a focus
    on the impacts on poor areas and slums. The guidance note is
    intended as a tool to help decision makers in Government
    agencies and in the Bank, particularly in respect of the
    main aspects: 1) methods to assess and evaluate resettlement

  4. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    India

    Although there has been considerable
    recent interest in micro-credit programs, rigorous evidence
    on the impacts of forming self-help groups to mobilize
    savings and foster social empowerment at the local level is
    virtually non-existent, despite a large number of programs
    following this pattern. The authors use a large household
    survey to assess the economic and social impacts of the
    formation of self-help groups in India. They find positive

  5. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    India

    Although many studies have explored the
    impacts of political quotas for females, often with
    ambiguous results, the underlying mechanisms and long-term
    effects have received little attention. This paper uses
    nation-wide data from India spanning a 15-year period to
    explore how reservations affect leader qualifications,
    service delivery, political participation, local
    accountability, and individuals willingness to contribute

  6. Library Resource
    January, 2013
    India

    This paper studies the impact of a large
    debt relief program, intended to attenuate investment
    constraints among highly-indebted households in rural India.
    It isolates the causal effect of bankruptcy-like debt relief
    settlements using a natural experiment arising from
    India's Debt Relief Program for Small and Marginal
    Farmers -- one of the largest debt relief initiatives in
    history. The analysis shows that debt relief has a

  7. Library Resource
    September, 2013
    India

    This paper uses a three-round
    4,000-household panel from Andhra Pradesh together with
    administrative data to explore short and medium-term poverty
    and welfare effects of the National Rural Employment
    Guarantee Scheme. Triple difference estimates suggest that
    participants significantly increase consumption (protein and
    energy intake) in the short run and accumulate more
    nonfinancial assets in the medium term. Direct benefits

  8. Library Resource
    January, 2014
    India

    Industrial parks are as popular as they
    are controversial, in India and globally. At their best they
    align infrastructure provision and agglomeration economies
    to jolt industrial growth. More often, they generate
    negative spill-overs, provide handouts, sit empty, or simply
    do not get built. This paper disaggregates how parks are
    built and how they fail. It contextualizes parks in India,
    followed by a thick case study of an innovative scheme that

  9. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    India

    Despite strong beliefs that property
    titling and registration will enhance credit access,
    empirical evidence in support of such effects remains scant.
    The gradual roll-out of computerization of land registry
    systems across Andhra Pradesh's 387 sub-registry
    offices allows us to combine quarterly administrative data
    on credit disbursed by all commercial banks for an
    eleven-year period (1997-2007) aggregated to the

  10. Library Resource
    November, 2015
    India

    Growing research and policy interest
    focuses on the misallocation of output and factors of
    production in developing economies. This paper considers the
    possible misallocation of financial loans. Using plant-level
    data on the organized and unorganized sectors, the paper
    describes the temporal, geographic, and industry
    distributions of financial loans. The focus of the analysis
    is the hypothesis that land misallocation might be an

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