Raghav Gaiha
Biographic Data
| ID | 111017 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raghav Gaiha |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raghav |
| FAMILY NAME | Gaiha |
| SIGNATURE | GAIHA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delhi |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2027-6747 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 108 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Pandemic‐induced income shocks and dietary diversity in India
The present study assesses the impact of the Covid‐19 pandemic‐induced income shocks on dietary diversity in India using eight waves of the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy–Consumer Pyramids Household Surveys data over the period January 2019 to August 2021. Using a two‐stage least squares panel regression model and a specification akin to difference‐in‐differences technique, our results suggest that an income shock of any magnitude reduced t…
Examination of Structural Shift in Food Consumption During the Covid-19 Pandemic in India
Changes in Subjective Well-Being in India
Despite the growing literature on subjective well-being (SWB), few studies have focused on developing countries. Applying robust OLS and ordered probit models to the India Human Development Survey panel data in 2005 and 2012, we empirically assess SWBchangesin 2005-2012, based on a self-reported measure of changes in economic well-being, as a function of household and state covariates in 2005. This is in sharp contrast with earlier studies' focus…
Declining Nutrient Intake in a Growing China
Determinants and Persistence of Benefits from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme – Panel Data Analysis for Rajasthan, India
Women’s Empowerment and Prevalence of Stunted and Underweight Children in Rural India
Battling Corruption
How can the government and citizens become more responsive to each other in alleviating poverty and reducing corruption? The book tests several intuitions including whether vulnerable groups demand more from the state if they acquire information about government programs by attending public meetings and participating in social and economic networks such as self- help groups, or by occupying elected positions reserved for them. The book assesses t…
National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme and Targeted Public Distribution Scheme in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh
The workfare scheme, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), and the direct food subsidy programme, the Targeted Public Distribution Scheme (TPDS), represent two social safety nets instituted in India as anti-poverty measures. This paper examines whether from the point of view of individual households the two programmes are substitutes or complements, as this will shed light on the appropriateness of the design of the two programm…
How Pervasive is Eating Out in India
A key feature of India's economic transformation has been a change in the nature of diets. There is a move away from inferior to superior foods and a substitution of traditional staples by primary food products, reflected in higher consumption of proteins, sugars, fats and vegetables. As part of this dietary transition, our analysis focuses on the pervasiveness of eating out and is based on a rich household survey for 2005. We broadly confirm the…
Targeting Accuracy of the NREG
Microfinance and Poverty—A Macro Perspective
On Hunger and Child Mortality in India
Despite accelerated growth there is pervasive hunger, child undernutrition and mortality in India. Our analysis focuses on their determinants. Raising living standards alone will not reduce hunger and undernutrition. Reduction of rural/urban disparities, income inequality, consumer price stabilization, and mothers' literacy all have roles of varying importance in different nutrition indicators. Somewhat surprisingly, public distribution system (P…
Networks and Anti-poverty Programs
Commentary on ‘Does Research Reduce Poverty? Assessing the Impacts of Policy-oriented Research in Agriculture’
While entitlement protection is intrinsically a short?term task, building flexible and effective response mechanisms is a long?term one. So a more comprehensive research agenda is needed – especially in the context of countries/regions characterised by low and varying yields and with limited opportunities for trade with the rest of the world. A case is, therefore, made for prioritisation of agricultural research, a pivotal role for the private se…
National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme in Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan
This paper presents results on the participation of rural workers in the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme based on a pilot survey of three villages in the Chittoor district, Andhra Pradesh (AP), India. These villages are Kaligiri, Obulayyapale and Reddivaripalle, and they were surveyed in December 2007. In contrast to an earlier study of ours on Rajasthan, Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) participated in higher numbe…
National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, Poverty and Prices in Rural India
The objective of this analysis is mainly to construct an intuitive measure of the performance of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in India. The focus is on divergence between demand and supply at the district level. Some related issues addressed are: (i) whether the gap between demand and supply responds to poverty; and (ii) whether recent hikes in NREGS wages are inflationary. Our analysis confirms responsiveness of the pos…
Mean Consumption, Poverty and Inequality in Rural India in the 60th Round of the National Sample Survey
This article reports on mean consumption, poverty (all three FGT measures) and inequality during 2004 for rural India using National Sample Survey (NSS) data for the 60th Round. Mean consumption at the national level is much higher than the poverty line. However, the Gini coefficient is higher than in recent earlier rounds. The headcount ratio is 22.9 per cent. Mean consumption, all three measures of poverty and the Gini coefficient are computed …
Calorie and Micronutrient Deprivation and Poverty Nutrition Traps in Rural India
Economic Gangsters
Famine
Millennium Development Goal of Halving Poverty in Asia
This article assesses the prospects of achieving the Millennium Development Goal of halving income poverty in Asia, and identifies policy priorities. The main findings are: (1) in East Asia, the actual growth rate exceeds that required to achieve this goal, while in South Asia, it falls short of the required rate; (2) the required rates of agricultural growth are, however, higher than the actual in both East Asia and South Asia; (3) moderate grow…
Famine in North Korea
India
The Bottom Billion
Decentralisation and Local Governance in Developing Countries
Women’s Empowerment and Prevalence of Stunted and Underweight Children in Rural India
Microfinance and Poverty—A Macro Perspective
Calorie and Micronutrient Deprivation and Poverty Nutrition Traps in Rural India
Does Agricultural Growth Matter in Poverty Alleviation
This article uses a panel survey of households in the Indian state of Maharashtra to demonstrate that agricultural growth takes too long to trickle down to the rural poor. Unanticipated inflation, on the other hand, aggravates rural poverty, as does domination of the agricultural growth process by large landholders. This affects the poor through the oligopsonistic influence of the landholders in rural labour markets, dampening employment and wage…
National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, Poverty and Prices in Rural India
The objective of this analysis is mainly to construct an intuitive measure of the performance of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in India. The focus is on divergence between demand and supply at the district level. Some related issues addressed are: (i) whether the gap between demand and supply responds to poverty; and (ii) whether recent hikes in NREGS wages are inflationary. Our analysis confirms responsiveness of the pos…
Declining Nutrient Intake in a Growing China
How Pervasive is Eating Out in India
A key feature of India's economic transformation has been a change in the nature of diets. There is a move away from inferior to superior foods and a substitution of traditional staples by primary food products, reflected in higher consumption of proteins, sugars, fats and vegetables. As part of this dietary transition, our analysis focuses on the pervasiveness of eating out and is based on a rich household survey for 2005. We broadly confirm the…
Mean Consumption, Poverty and Inequality in Rural India in the 60th Round of the National Sample Survey
This article reports on mean consumption, poverty (all three FGT measures) and inequality during 2004 for rural India using National Sample Survey (NSS) data for the 60th Round. Mean consumption at the national level is much higher than the poverty line. However, the Gini coefficient is higher than in recent earlier rounds. The headcount ratio is 22.9 per cent. Mean consumption, all three measures of poverty and the Gini coefficient are computed …
Panchayats, Communities, and the Rural Poor in India
Despite large outlays, poverty alleviation measures have not made a significant dent in rural poverty in India. Disillusionment with these measures culminated in the 73rd Constitutional (amendment) Act in 1993, designed to revitalise the Panchayat system (consisting of elected Panchayats at different levels) in India. The focus of the present study is on its poverty alleviating potential. Emphasising that decentralisation is essentially a politic…
Are the Chronically Poor Also the Poorest in Rural India
Changes in Subjective Well-Being in India
Despite the growing literature on subjective well-being (SWB), few studies have focused on developing countries. Applying robust OLS and ordered probit models to the India Human Development Survey panel data in 2005 and 2012, we empirically assess SWBchangesin 2005-2012, based on a self-reported measure of changes in economic well-being, as a function of household and state covariates in 2005. This is in sharp contrast with earlier studies' focus…
Targeting Accuracy of the NREG
On Hunger and Child Mortality in India
Despite accelerated growth there is pervasive hunger, child undernutrition and mortality in India. Our analysis focuses on their determinants. Raising living standards alone will not reduce hunger and undernutrition. Reduction of rural/urban disparities, income inequality, consumer price stabilization, and mothers' literacy all have roles of varying importance in different nutrition indicators. Somewhat surprisingly, public distribution system (P…
National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme in Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan
This paper presents results on the participation of rural workers in the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme based on a pilot survey of three villages in the Chittoor district, Andhra Pradesh (AP), India. These villages are Kaligiri, Obulayyapale and Reddivaripalle, and they were surveyed in December 2007. In contrast to an earlier study of ours on Rajasthan, Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) participated in higher numbe…
Millennium Development Goal of Halving Poverty in Asia
This article assesses the prospects of achieving the Millennium Development Goal of halving income poverty in Asia, and identifies policy priorities. The main findings are: (1) in East Asia, the actual growth rate exceeds that required to achieve this goal, while in South Asia, it falls short of the required rate; (2) the required rates of agricultural growth are, however, higher than the actual in both East Asia and South Asia; (3) moderate grow…
On the Targeting and Cost-Effectiveness of Anti-Poverty Programmes in Rural India
This article is motivated by a concern for the cost-effectiveness of anti-poverty outlays; much of its focus is on the targeting of Rural Public Works (RPW) and the Integrated Rural Development Programme (IRDP) over the period 1987-93. It is argued that benefits to the rural poor of larger outlays on these two major anti-poverty programmes are likely to be limited, given their mistargeting. Large sections of the rural poor were not covered in 198…
Jawahar Rozgar Yojana, Panchayats, and the Rural Poor in India
Research Article| October 01 1998 Jawahar Rozgar Yojana, Panchayats, and the Rural Poor in India Raghav Gaiha, Raghav Gaiha Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar P. D. Kaushik, P. D. Kaushik Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Vani Kulkarni Vani Kulkarni Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1998) 38 (10): 928–949. https://d…
Income Mobility in Rural India
Poverty, Agricultural Growth and Prices in Rural India - A Critique and an Extension
Does the Employment Guarantee Scheme Benefit the Rural Poor in India? Some Recent Evidence
Although participation in the Employment Guarantee Scheme (EGS) in the Indian state of Maharashtra has declined in recent years, the program continues to bring significant transfer and stabilization benefits to some of the least-developed villages during long seasonal slack periods. Because alternative employment options are few and far between, this dependence on the EGS is unavoidably high. This article makes a case for enhanced outlays under t…
Policy reforms, institutions and the poor in rural India
Structural adjustment in India was a response to the macro‐economic crisis of early 1991. Anticipating unfavourable short‐term effects of the policy reforms on the poor, outlays on anti‐poverty programmes were stepped up, and in 1992, the landmark 73rd Constitutional (Amendment) Act restructured local government councils, or panchayats. Whether this restructuring made any difference through the better design and implementation of anti‐poverty pro…
On the Persistence of Poverty in Rural India
Using the ICRISAT panel survey for Maharashtra for 1979–84, a period of rapid growth in farm and non-farm activities, an attempt is made to analyse the factors that prevented the poor from participating in the growth process. Thus insights into the persistence of poverty are obtained. Limited endowments of the poor, specifically land and education, and their failure to benefit adequately from them tend to perpetuate their poverty. Despite some we…
Hunger, undernutrition and poverty in India
Hunger is pervasive in India despite an adequate food supply. While both supply and demand matter, the latter has a stronger role in influencing food consumption through changes in the price of food. On the demand side, it is not just the level of income but also its distribution that matters. Cast in a complementary role, policies/programmes designed to enhance the incomes of the poorest and the public distribution of food (PDS) are thus vital f…
Poverty Alleviation Programmes In Rural India
The Planning Commission estimated a sharp reduction of poverty during the early 1980s, which it attributed largely to the poverty alleviation strategy followed during the Sixth Plan. Specifically, it was claimed that the Integrated Rural Development Programme (IRDP) was responsible for a substantial reduction in rural poverty. This claim is critically evaluated here. Drawing upon the results of an applied general equilibrium model, selected anti-…
On testing the stability of input-output relationships in the Indian economy
Inequality, earnings and participation among the poor in rural India
Emphasising that there is a relative dimension to deprivation, an attempt is made here to decompose income inequality among the rural poor into inequality in earnings per worker, in participation rate and covariance of earnings per worker and participation rate. From this decomposition, the effects of (small) changes in inequality in earnings per worker and in participation rate on income inequality are evaluated. The analysis is based on a cross…
Poverty, Agricultural Growth and Prices in Rural India - A Critique and an Extension
Income Mobility in Rural India
On Estimates of Rural Poverty in India
Research Article| July 01 1989 On Estimates of Rural Poverty in India: An Assessment Raghav Gaiha Raghav Gaiha Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1960) 29 (7): 687–697. https://doi.org/10.2307/2644674 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Ci…
Are the Chronically Poor Also the Poorest in Rural India
Poverty Alleviation Programmes In Rural India
The Planning Commission estimated a sharp reduction of poverty during the early 1980s, which it attributed largely to the poverty alleviation strategy followed during the Sixth Plan. Specifically, it was claimed that the Integrated Rural Development Programme (IRDP) was responsible for a substantial reduction in rural poverty. This claim is critically evaluated here. Drawing upon the results of an applied general equilibrium model, selected anti-…
Agricultural Wages, Population, and Technology in Asian Countries
Research Article| May 01 1992 Agricultural Wages, Population, and Technology in Asian Countries Raghav Gaiha, Raghav Gaiha Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Marco Spinedi Marco Spinedi Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1992) 32 (5): 461–470. https://doi.org/10.2307/2644977 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data …
Poverty, Development, and Participation in India
Research Article| September 01 1995 Poverty, Development, and Participation in India: A Progress Report Raghav Gaiha Raghav Gaiha Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1995) 35 (9): 867–878. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645787 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite S…
Does Agricultural Growth Matter in Poverty Alleviation
This article uses a panel survey of households in the Indian state of Maharashtra to demonstrate that agricultural growth takes too long to trickle down to the rural poor. Unanticipated inflation, on the other hand, aggravates rural poverty, as does domination of the agricultural growth process by large landholders. This affects the poor through the oligopsonistic influence of the landholders in rural labour markets, dampening employment and wage…
How dependent are the rural poor on the employment guarantee scheme in India
An analysis of the ICRISAT data for two villages in the Indian state of Maharashtra points to mistargeting of the Employment Guarantee Scheme (EGS). There was a marked deterioration in it over the period 1979–89, reflected in not just a larger concentration of the more affluent among the EGS participants but also their much larger gains from participating in this scheme. Nevertheless, a large subset of the chronically poor depended heavily on EGS…
The Employment Guarantee Scheme in India
Research Article| December 01 1996 The Employment Guarantee Scheme in India: Is It Mistargeted? Raghav Gaiha Raghav Gaiha Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1996) 36 (12): 1201–1212. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645575 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search…
Hunger, undernutrition and poverty in India
Hunger is pervasive in India despite an adequate food supply. While both supply and demand matter, the latter has a stronger role in influencing food consumption through changes in the price of food. On the demand side, it is not just the level of income but also its distribution that matters. Cast in a complementary role, policies/programmes designed to enhance the incomes of the poorest and the public distribution of food (PDS) are thus vital f…
On the Persistence of Poverty in Rural India
Using the ICRISAT panel survey for Maharashtra for 1979–84, a period of rapid growth in farm and non-farm activities, an attempt is made to analyse the factors that prevented the poor from participating in the growth process. Thus insights into the persistence of poverty are obtained. Limited endowments of the poor, specifically land and education, and their failure to benefit adequately from them tend to perpetuate their poverty. Despite some we…
Jawahar Rozgar Yojana, Panchayats, and the Rural Poor in India
Research Article| October 01 1998 Jawahar Rozgar Yojana, Panchayats, and the Rural Poor in India Raghav Gaiha, Raghav Gaiha Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar P. D. Kaushik, P. D. Kaushik Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Vani Kulkarni Vani Kulkarni Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1998) 38 (10): 928–949. https://d…
Policy reforms, institutions and the poor in rural India
Structural adjustment in India was a response to the macro‐economic crisis of early 1991. Anticipating unfavourable short‐term effects of the policy reforms on the poor, outlays on anti‐poverty programmes were stepped up, and in 1992, the landmark 73rd Constitutional (Amendment) Act restructured local government councils, or panchayats. Whether this restructuring made any difference through the better design and implementation of anti‐poverty pro…
Food, Prices and Income in India
This paper argues that hunger, or chronic undernutrition, persists in India despite an adequate food supply. The problem is essentially distributional. At given market prices, low food entitlements reflect low incomes. Policies and programs designed to augment the incomes of the poor thus deserve a high priority in ensuring their greater access to food. Although the public distribution of food has a potentially significant role in enhancing the a…
On the Targeting and Cost-Effectiveness of Anti-Poverty Programmes in Rural India
This article is motivated by a concern for the cost-effectiveness of anti-poverty outlays; much of its focus is on the targeting of Rural Public Works (RPW) and the Integrated Rural Development Programme (IRDP) over the period 1987-93. It is argued that benefits to the rural poor of larger outlays on these two major anti-poverty programmes are likely to be limited, given their mistargeting. Large sections of the rural poor were not covered in 198…
Panchayats, Communities, and the Rural Poor in India
Despite large outlays, poverty alleviation measures have not made a significant dent in rural poverty in India. Disillusionment with these measures culminated in the 73rd Constitutional (amendment) Act in 1993, designed to revitalise the Panchayat system (consisting of elected Panchayats at different levels) in India. The focus of the present study is on its poverty alleviating potential. Emphasising that decentralisation is essentially a politic…
Does the Employment Guarantee Scheme Benefit the Rural Poor in India? Some Recent Evidence
Although participation in the Employment Guarantee Scheme (EGS) in the Indian state of Maharashtra has declined in recent years, the program continues to bring significant transfer and stabilization benefits to some of the least-developed villages during long seasonal slack periods. Because alternative employment options are few and far between, this dependence on the EGS is unavoidably high. This article makes a case for enhanced outlays under t…
Common interest groups, village institutions and the rural poor in India
The District Poverty Initiatives Project (DPIP) in India was launched in a few states in recent years with a view to ensuring that the most disadvantaged or the poorest have a central role in the design and implementation of subprojects vital to their livelihoods. An elaborate organisational structure at the state, district and village levels was created to give local needs and priorities due attention. Since the most disadvantaged lack awareness…
Measuring Vulnerability to Natural Hazards
Famine in North Korea
India
The Bottom Billion
Economics (37 works) · Economic growth (31 works) · Political science (29 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (28 works) · Agricultural risk and resilience (27 works) · Poverty (27 works) · Geography (23 works) · Development economics (22 works) · Social and Economic Development in India (17 works) · Agriculture (15 works)