Option values, switches and wages: an analysis of the employmentguarantee scheme in India (2003)
Scandizzo, Pasquale Lucio, Gaiha, Raghav, Imai, Katsushi
Consistent with the theory of real options, it is argued that the value of the Employment Guarantee Scheme (EGS) in the Indian state of Maharashtra and its impact on workers’ behaviour do not...
This paper presents an alternative view on causes of differentiation in rural Kenya, focusing on the role of livestock as liquid assets. We use cross‐sectional household data in Central and...
Savings, risk-coping, and poverty dynamics of rural households in developing countries / (2000)
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Ciaran Driver, Katsushi Imai, Paul Temple, Giovanni Urga
This paper reports estimation of investment equations for two classes of fixed assets: plant & machinery and building for a large sample of UK manufacturing industries. It exploits the different...
Vulnerability, Shocks and Persistence of Poverty - Estimates for Semi-Arid Rural South India
This paper focuses on vulnerability of rural households to poverty when a negative crop shock occurs. Of particular concern is the possibilty of some sections experiencing long spells of poverty as a...
Katsushi Imai, Per A. Eklund, Fabrizio Felloni
This study analyses behaviour of women community based organisations in two districts in Nepal in reducing prevalence of child malnutrition in member households. Our survey focused on three sets of...
The Employment Guarantee Scheme as a Social Safety Net - Poverty Dynamics and Poverty Alleviation
This paper investigates the dynamic aspects of poverty and anti-poverty interventions, particularly focusing on promotional effects, i.e., the effects of helping the poor escape poverty and...
Millennium Development Goals, Agricultural Growth and Openness
Millennium development goal (MDG) of poverty reduction aims for halving of the head-count ratio over the period 1990-2015. Available studies draw attention to the gap between observed and required...
Option Values, Switches and Wages - An Analysis of the Employment Guarantee Scheme in India
Katsushi Imai, Pasquale Scandizzo, Raghav Gaiha
Consistent with the theory of real options, it is argued that the value of the Employment Guarantee Scheme (EGS) in the Indian state of Maharashtra and its impact on workers` behaviour do not depend...
Vulnerability, Shocks and Persistence of Poverty - Estimates for Semi-Arid Rural South India
This paper focuses on vulnerability of rural households to poverty when a negative crop shock occurs based on the ICRISAT panel data in India during 1975-84. Of particular concern is the possibility...
Per Eklund, Katsushi Imai, Fabrizio Felloni
This study analyses behaviour of women's community-based organisations in rural Nepal in reducing prevalence of child malnutrition in member households drawing upon the survey data collected in 2000....
Ciaran Driver, Katsushi Imai, Paul Temple, Giovanni Urga
This paper compares pooled models of capital investment with non-pooled models using the UK's Confederation of British Industry's (CBI) Industrial Trends Survey for the U.K., particularly focusing on...
Although a workfare scheme is potentially a cost-effective poverty alleviation scheme as it attracts only the poor who have an incentive to do unskilled manual works, an investigation of the ICRISAT...
This paper focuses on the poverty alleviating potential of the Employment Guarantee Scheme (EGS) in (the Indian state of) Maharashtra. A point of departure is the shift of emphasis from the static to...
This paper presents an alternative view on causes of differentiation in rural Kenya, focusing on the role of livestock as liquid assets. We use cross-sectional household data in Central and Western...
Vulnerability, shocks and persistence of poverty: estimates for semi-arid rural South India
This paper focuses on the vulnerability of rural households to poverty when a negative crop shock occurs. The analysis is based on the ICRISAT panel survey of households in a semi-arid region in...
Drawing upon survey data in 2000, this article analyses the maturity of women's community-based organizations in Papua New Guinea (PNG), comparing autonomous organizations with those that receive...
Measuring Vulnerability and Poverty: Estimates for Rural India
This paper measures the vulnerability of households in rural India, based upon the ICRISAT panel survey. We employ both ex ante and ex post measures of vulnerability. The latter are decomposed into...
The effect of uncertainty on UK investment authorisation: Homogenous vs. heterogeneous estimators
Ciaran Driver, Katsushi Imai, Paul Temple, Giovanni Urga
This paper compares pooled and non-pooled models of UK capital investment using the Confederation of British Industry’s (CBI) Industrial Trends Survey, focusing on the impact of uncertainty. The...
Option Values, Switches, and Wages: An Analysis of the Employment Guarantee Scheme in India
Pasquale Scandizzo, Raghav Gaiha, Katsushi Imai
Consistent with real option theory, the authors argue that the value of the Employment Guarantee Scheme (EGS) in rural India and its impact on workers' behavior does not depend so much on its income...
Does the employment guarantee scheme stabilize household incomes in rural India?
Pasquale Scandizzo, Raghav Gaiha, Katsushi Imai
Our analysis, based on the ICRISAT panel survey of villages in the semi-arid region of south India, confirms the income stabilizing effect of the Employment Guarantee Scheme in India. Variability of...
Foodgrain Stocks, Prices and Speculation
Katsushi Imai, Raghav Gaiha, Ganesh Thapa
Much of recent work has raised the issue that the surge in prices of foodgrains in the last two years cannot be explained satisfactorily in terms of the fundamentals of supply and demand. It has also...
Transmission of World Commodity Prices to Domestic Commodity Prices in India and China
Katsushi Imai, Raghav Gaiha, Ganesh Thapa
This paper examines the extent to which changes in global agricultural commodity price are transmitted to domestic prices in India and China. The focus is on short and medium-run adjustment processes...
Disparity, Deprivation and Discrimination in Rural India
Ganesh Thapa, Katsushi Imai, Vani S. Kulkarni
years, some disadvantaged groups-the Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST)- remain mired in acute poverty. The present study assesses their poverty and relative deprivation, and the...
Poverty, Inequality and Ethnic Minorities in Vietnam
The present study examines how and why ethnic minorities are poorer than ethnic majorities in Vietnam using the VHLSS data for 2002 and 2004. First, the analysis confirms that households belonging to...