Climate risk is an important driver of long-term poverty dynamics, especially in rural regions. This paper builds a dynamic, multi-generation household model of consumption, accumulation, and risk management...
This paper demonstrates that there are potentially large returns to having a social protection policy that stakes out a productive safety net below the vulnerable and keeps them from slipping into a poverty...
With 155,000 post offices, India Post is the largest post office in the world, and it has a value well beyond that of a postal and savings outlet for India's people. But with its core business activity...
With 155,000 post offices, India Post is the largest post office in the world, and it has a value well beyond that of a postal and savings outlet for India's people. But with its core business activity...
This paper's theoretical exploration of time, the market and the agrarian puts forward a single period production model that highlights the forces that shape production and land use decisions, specifically...
Under communal farm production, there was little incentive to work hard: the communal system guaranteed a livelihood, and there were few private gains from additional efforts. The reform that introduced...
This Banks World newsletter includes some of the following headings: Board responds to Asia crisis with, by Kevin Rafferty; steel band of hope for community outreach; by Daniel Ritchie; twenty four hours...