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Impact of MGNREGA on Rural Wages in India: Findings from the Rural Price Collection (RPC) Surveys (2001-2011)
Get PDFProfessional paper for the fulfillment of the Master of Public Policy degree.Governments in developing countries have experimented with a variety of poverty alleviation programs over the last few decades, including conditional and unconditional cash transfer programs, microcredit, and employment guarantee schemes, among others. The most successful and perhaps the most extensively studied poverty alleviation program has been Mexico’s PROGRESA, which adopted a human-capital investment approach towards lowering poverty rates. Another increasingly studied poverty alleviation program has been India’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) of 2005.1 Unlike PROGRESA, however, MGNREGA seeks to alleviate rural poverty by providing guaranteed employment to beneficiaries in public works. This paper assesses the impact of MGNREGA on rural wages in India, using the National Sample Survey Office’s (NSSO) Rural Price Collection (RPC) surveys from 2001-11. Additionally, I look at the gendered impacts of the program to specifically assess whether MGNREGA has led to reduction in wage inequality by gender in rural India.Pandey, Divya. (2018). Impact of MGNREGA on Rural Wages in India: Findings from the Rural Price Collection (RPC) Surveys (2001-2011). Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/208501
Droughts, distress and a conditional cash transfer program to mitigate the impact of drought in Bihar, India
No full textPaddy- Bihar's staple crop- is vulnerable to droughts, primarily due to high cost of irrigation. In 2008, Bihar government launched a conditional cash transfer scheme to subsidise diesel for irrigation in drought affected areas. We show that this scheme has not been effective in mitigating the impact of drought on paddy production. A primary survey of potential and actual beneficiaries shows that low awareness and penetration among smallholders, alongside uncertainties and delays in the discursal of the subsidy, make it ineffective. We suggest that in states with limited capacity, such ad-hoc subsidies are unlickely to protect smallholders from weather shocks. Kishore, Avinash; Joshi, Pramod K.; Pandey, Divy
Supplemental Material, sj-docx-1-ptd-10.1177_08968608221091023 - Risk factors and outcomes of neonates with acute kidney injury needing peritoneal dialysis: Results from the prospective TINKER (The Indian PCRRT-ICONIC Neonatal Kidney Educational Registry) study
No full textSupplemental Material, sj-docx-1-ptd-10.1177_08968608221091023 for Risk factors and outcomes of neonates with acute kidney injury needing peritoneal dialysis: Results from the prospective TINKER (The Indian PCRRT-ICONIC Neonatal Kidney Educational Registry) study by Sidharth Kumar Sethi, Sanjay Wazir, Jagdish Sahoo, Gopal Agrawal, Naveen Bajaj, Naveen Parkash Gupta, Shishir Mirgunde, Binesh Balachandran, Kamran Afzal, Anubha Shrivastava, Jyoti Bagla, Sushma Krishnegowda, Ananth Konapur, Azmeri Sultana, Kritika Soni, Nikhil Nair, Divya Sharma, Prajit Khooblall, Avisha Pandey, Khalid Alhasan, Mignon McCulloch, Timothy Bunchman, Abhishek Tibrewal and Rupesh Raina in Peritoneal Dialysis International</p
Supplemental Material, sj-docx-2-ptd-10.1177_08968608221091023 - Risk factors and outcomes of neonates with acute kidney injury needing peritoneal dialysis: Results from the prospective TINKER (The Indian PCRRT-ICONIC Neonatal Kidney Educational Registry) study
No full textSupplemental Material, sj-docx-2-ptd-10.1177_08968608221091023 for Risk factors and outcomes of neonates with acute kidney injury needing peritoneal dialysis: Results from the prospective TINKER (The Indian PCRRT-ICONIC Neonatal Kidney Educational Registry) study by Sidharth Kumar Sethi, Sanjay Wazir, Jagdish Sahoo, Gopal Agrawal, Naveen Bajaj, Naveen Parkash Gupta, Shishir Mirgunde, Binesh Balachandran, Kamran Afzal, Anubha Shrivastava, Jyoti Bagla, Sushma Krishnegowda, Ananth Konapur, Azmeri Sultana, Kritika Soni, Nikhil Nair, Divya Sharma, Prajit Khooblall, Avisha Pandey, Khalid Alhasan, Mignon McCulloch, Timothy Bunchman, Abhishek Tibrewal and Rupesh Raina in Peritoneal Dialysis International</p
Merchants of Virtue
Get PDFMerchants of Virtue explores the question of what it meant to be Hindu in precolonial South Asia. Divya Cherian presents a fine-grained study of everyday life and local politics in the kingdom of Marwar in eighteenth-century western India to uncover how merchants enforced their caste ideals of vegetarianism and bodily austerity as universal markers of Hindu identity. Using legal strategies and alliances with elites, these merchants successfully remade the category of “Hindu,” setting it in contrast to “Untouchable” in a process that reconfigured Hinduism in caste terms. In a history pertinent to understanding India today, Cherian establishes the centrality of caste to the early-modern Hindu self and to its imagination of inadmissible others.
“A refreshingly different perspective on the history of caste and untouchability in India, enlarging the field of scholarship from its focus on the colonial era by telling us how precolonial configurations of power in the locality shaped the everyday experience of caste.” — GOPAL GURU, coauthor of The Cracked Mirror and Experience, Caste, and the Everyday Social
“This provocative and empirically rich study offers a plenitude of fascinating insights into aspects of western Indian history ca. 1800, from kingship and caste hierarchy to abortion and alcohol consumption. Particularly innovative is its focus on the critical role played by merchants in articulating social identities that became widespread in modern times.” — CYNTHIA TALBOT, author of The Last Hindu Emperor
“A pathbreaking book that explodes essentialist views of the construction of Hindu and Muslim identities in precolonial India. Divya Cherian provocatively argues that the category of ‘Hindu’ was the primary locus for a system of radical othering that excluded Untouchables (and Muslims as Untouchables) through mechanisms of state, law, and everyday life.” — CHRISTIAN LEE NOVETZKE, Professor of South Asian and Religious Studies, University of Washingto
Merchants of Virtue
No full textMerchants of Virtue explores the question of what it meant to be Hindu in precolonial South Asia. Divya Cherian presents a fine-grained study of everyday life and local politics in the kingdom of Marwar in eighteenth-century western India to uncover how merchants enforced their caste ideals of vegetarianism and bodily austerity as universal markers of Hindu identity. Using legal strategies and alliances with elites, these merchants successfully remade the category of “Hindu,” setting it in contrast to “Untouchable” in a process that reconfigured Hinduism in caste terms. In a history pertinent to understanding India today, Cherian establishes the centrality of caste to the early-modern Hindu self and to its imagination of inadmissible others.
“A refreshingly different perspective on the history of caste and untouchability in India, enlarging the field of scholarship from its focus on the colonial era by telling us how precolonial configurations of power in the locality shaped the everyday experience of caste.” — GOPAL GURU, coauthor of The Cracked Mirror and Experience, Caste, and the Everyday Social
“This provocative and empirically rich study offers a plenitude of fascinating insights into aspects of western Indian history ca. 1800, from kingship and caste hierarchy to abortion and alcohol consumption. Particularly innovative is its focus on the critical role played by merchants in articulating social identities that became widespread in modern times.” — CYNTHIA TALBOT, author of The Last Hindu Emperor
“A pathbreaking book that explodes essentialist views of the construction of Hindu and Muslim identities in precolonial India. Divya Cherian provocatively argues that the category of ‘Hindu’ was the primary locus for a system of radical othering that excluded Untouchables (and Muslims as Untouchables) through mechanisms of state, law, and everyday life.” — CHRISTIAN LEE NOVETZKE, Professor of South Asian and Religious Studies, University of Washingto
Improved collision detection in StarLogo Nova
No full textThesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2015.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (page 65).StarLogo Nova is blocks-based educational software that allows students to write and play their own 3D games online. It is the online version of StarLogo TNG. This thesis explores the problem of needing more accurate collision detection in StarLogo Nova while maintaining reasonable performance. Three new collision detection systems for StarLogo Nova are developed and evaluated. Compared to the spheres used to perform collision checks in the current system, the first new system, called the TightestFitCollider, introduces a variety of bounding spheres, bounding boxes, and bounding capsules as bounding structures that may fit the models in StarLogo Nova more closely. The second system, called the HierarchicalCollider, uses hierarchies of bounding boxes to perform even more precise collision detection than the TightestFitCollider. Finally, the third system combines the first two systems, so that the advantages of each can be used as appropriate. The three systems are evaluated for their accuracy and performance within the StarLogo Nova framework.by Divya Bajekal.M. Eng
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