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  1. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    India

    Despite the popularity and unique nature
    of women's self-help groups in India, evidence of their
    economic impacts is scant. Based on two rounds of a 2,400
    household panel, the authors use double differences,
    propensity score matching, and pipeline comparison to assess
    economic impacts of longer (2.5-3 years) exposure of a
    program that promoted and strengthened self-help programs in
    Andhra Pradesh in India. The analysis finds that longer

  2. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Pakistan

    Parts of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB), the
    northeastern most administrative region of Pakistan, have
    been undergoing a dramatic transformation over the last
    three decades. Given the challenging environment, GB's
    development outcomes are impressive, built on the
    time-tempered resilience of the people of GB and facilitated
    by high levels of social capital. GB has also benefitted
    from the attentions of the national Government of Pakistan

  3. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Bangladesh, Uganda

    This background paper attempts to expand our understanding of the gender-differentiated impact of shocks on assets through a literature review on shocks and gendered asset dynamics and an analysis of new panel data (2007 and 2009) from Uganda and Bangladesh looking at the impact of negative shocks and positive events on men's and women's assets. We take advantage of detailed assets and shocks modules to disaggregate the type of shock between covariate and idiosyncratic shocks and types of assets according to ownership (joint, husband's, and wife's assets).

  4. Library Resource
    February, 2014
    India

    Despite rapid economic growth, gender
    disparities in women's economic participation have
    remained deep and persistent in India. What explains these
    gender disparities? Is it poor infrastructure, limited
    education, or the composition of the labor force and
    industries? Or is it deficiencies in social and business
    networks and a low share of incumbent female entrepreneurs?
    This note analyzes the spatial determinants of female

  5. Library Resource
    September, 2015
    India

    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 female
    participation rates are lower, this alleged income effect
    does not bode well for the empowerment of women as India
    develops. This paper argues that a traditional supply-side
    interpretation is insufficient to account for the decline in

  6. Library Resource
    October, 2015
    India

    This report is based on a field study of
    two large settlements, Satghara (a census town) and
    Bhagwatipur (a rural cluster with 10,000 plus population) in
    the Madhubani district of Bihar. The study explores the
    social dynamics of the rural non-farm economy by empirically
    mapping non-farm occupations in both the settlements. It
    examines the dynamics of caste, community, and gender within
    the social organization of the non-farm economy in terms of

  7. 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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