This paper tests the impact of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on (1) rural-urban migration; (2) urban unemployment and (3) Inequality in India. We use the simple Harris-Todaro framework to analyze the labor market outcomes of this policy intervention. We use district level data from two rounds of National Sample Survey (NSSO) to compare districts where the NREGS was laun...

Rural electrification is now and will remain an essential element for rural development in China and other developing countries. With more than half of the world’s population living in rural communities, lessons for rural renewable energy applications and assessment from China can be very helpful in defining a global sustainable development strategy. This paper describes energy needs in rural C...

The Directorate of Economics of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development maintains two publication series for research on food security issues. Publications under the Flash series are short (3-4 pages), carefully focused reports designated to provide timely research results on issues of great interest. Publications under the Research Paper series are designed to provide longer, more in...

A Multidimensional Approach to Measuring Poverty and the Assessment of Educational Poverty in Iran1   E. Aboonoori, Ph.D. * A.A. Saalem, Ph.D. ** J. Arab Yaarmohammadi ***   A multidimensional approach to measuring poverty facilitates the assessment of educational poverty as one of its several dimensions. Utilizing this approach, the overall poverty in Iran in the years of 2005 ...

Wendong Zhang and Mike E. Duffy 2 1: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Iowa State University 3 478C Heady Hall, 518 Farm House Lane, Ames, Iowa, 50011 4 515-294-2536, 5 [email protected] 6 2: Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics, Iowa State University 7 475 Heady Hall, 518 Farm House Lane, Ames, Iowa, 50011 8 [email protected] 9 10 forthcoming at Journal of American Societ...

Agribusiness Trade Research and Information Center, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. Julian Alston is a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis, and associate director, Science and Technology, at the University of California Agricultural Issues Center. Bruce Babcock is a professor of economics and director of the Center for Agricultu...

Effect of Migration on Children’s Educational Performance in Rural China XINXIN CHEN, QIUQIONG HUANG, SCOTT ROZELLE, YAOJIANG SHI & LINXIU ZHANG College of Economics, Zhejiang Gongshang University, 149 Jiaogong Road, Hangzhou 310035, China. Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, 1994 Buford Avenue, St Paul, MN 55108, USA. Freeman Spogli Institute, Stanford University, Encina ...

Using population and product consumption data from the Demographic and Health Surveys I construct comparable measures of inequality and migration for 65 countries, including some of the poorest countries in the world. I find that the urban-rural gap accounts for 40% of mean country inequality and much of its cross-country variation. One out of every four or five individuals raised in rural area...