ESCAP Development Paper 1306, September 2013 <p></p> How much do small old age pensions and widow’s pensions help the poor in India? An ex-post evaluation of the National Social Assistance Programme and implications for ...

This paper attempts to disentangle the poverty effects of key policy variables that directlyaffect the poor (namely the government-led channel of development spending and financing)in both agricultural and non-agricultural ...

Assessment of India’s progress towards the MDGs shows a notable but uneven achievement across goals, targets and states. India has achieved the target for halving poverty and is likely to attain gender parity in primary, ...

This South and South-West Asia Development Paper #1501 explores the economy-wide effects of trade liberalization in five South Asian countries (Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) using updated Social Accounting ...

The reforms pursued since 1991 have deepened global integration of the Indian economy in terms of a rising share of trade and an even more dramatic transformation of services trade as well as the emergence of the country ...

Assam has made vigorous efforts since 2015 towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Cognizant of the state’s weak progress in development, its recent governments – irrespective of political affiliation– ...

This study was carried out with the aim to identify strategies and policies which could create an enabling environment for women entrepreneurs and/or would-be entrepreneurs in India. It aims to provide a set of practical ...

Countries of the South and South-West Asia subregion have mutual complementarities in terms of their energy resource endowments as well as their aggregate energy supply-demand patterns, providing ideal conditions for ...

Transformation of Asia from its status as the most impoverished region to the growth locomotive of the world economy within past five decades is unprecedented and dramatic. Led by East Asian countries, the industrial ...