Testing Information Constraints on India's Largest Antipoverty Program

Testing Information Constraints on India's Largest Antipoverty Program

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 know...

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Main Authors:	Ravallion, Martin, van de Walle, Dominique, Dutta, Puja, Murgai, Rinku
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2013
Subjects:	ACCESS TO EMPLOYMENT ACCESS TO INFORMATION ACCESS TO RADIOS BELIEFS CHILD CARE CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS COLLABORATION COMMISSION ON POPULATION DEMOCRACY DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT POLICY DISABILITY DISCUSSION DOMESTIC VIOLENCE DRINKING WATER ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS ECONOMICS FAMILY MEMBERS FERTILITY RATES FOCUS GROUP DISCUSSIONS FOCUS GROUPS GENDER GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS HOUSEHOLD LEVEL HOUSING HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IDEA IDEAS IDENTITY ILLITERACY IMMUNIZATION INCIDENCE OF POVERTY INFORMATION CAMPAIGNS INSIGHTS INTERVENTIONS KNOWLEDGE GAPS LABOR MARKET LACK OF INFORMATION LACK OF KNOWLEDGE LAND OWNERSHIP LEARNING LEGAL RIGHTS LEVELS OF EDUCATION LOWER FERTILITY MANDATES MANUAL LABOR MIGRANT MIGRATION OLD AGE PARTICIPATION RATES POLICY DECISIONS POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POLITICAL PARTICIPATION POOR FAMILIES POPULATION PROJECTIONS PRIMARY EDUCATION PRIMARY SCHOOL PROGRESS PUBLIC AWARENESS PUBLIC GOOD PUBLIC INFORMATION PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE PUBLIC SERVICES RADIO ROLE OF WOMEN RURAL AREAS RURAL DEVELOPMENT RURAL POPULATION RURAL POVERTY SCHOOLING SERVICE DELIVERY SERVICE PROVIDERS SOCIAL GROUPS SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE SOCIAL INTERACTION SOCIAL NETWORKS TELEVISION TV TYPE OF KNOWLEDGE UNEMPLOYMENT VICTIMS
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/09/18227716/testing-information-constraints-indias-largest-antipoverty-program http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15834

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/09/18227716/testing-information-constraints-indias-largest-antipoverty-program
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15834

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