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  1. Library Resource
    September, 2013
    India

    This paper assembles data at the
    all-India level and for the village of Palanpur, Uttar
    Pradesh, to document the growing importance, and influence,
    of the non-farm sector in the rural economy between the
    early 1980s and late 2000s. The suggestion from the combined
    National Sample Survey and Palanpur data is of a slow
    process of non-farm diversification, whose distributional
    incidence, on the margin, is increasingly pro-poor. The

  2. Library Resource
    September, 2013
    India

    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 rights? Or does their lack of knowledge reflect deeper
    problems of poor people's agency and an unresponsive
    supply side? This paper reports on an information campaign
    that was designed and implemented in the form of an

  3. Library Resource
    September, 2013
    India

    In India, land continues to be of
    enormous economic, social, and symbolic relevance. The way
    in which land can be accessed and its ownership documented
    is at the core of the livelihood of the large majority of
    the poor, especially in rural and tribal areas and
    determines the extent to which increasingly scarce natural
    resources are managed. Land policies and administration are
    critical determinants of the transaction cost associated

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