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Female Political Leadership And The Prevalence Of Water Borne Diseases: Evidence From A Natural Experiment In India, Ambrish Dongre
Female Political Leadership And The Prevalence Of Water Borne Diseases: Evidence From A Natural Experiment In India, Ambrish Dongre
Ambrish A Dongre
This paper examines the relationship between prevalence of water borne diseases and gender of the head of the village councils by exploiting a natural experiment in local governance in India. A constitutional amendment in early 1990s ensured that only women could contest the elections and be the head in at least one- third of the village councils selected through an exogenous process. Utilizing a unique sample survey, we show that having a woman as the council head seems to have no effect on the prevalence of water borne diseases. But if we look into the sub-categories of the female council …
Structural Break In India's Growth, Ambrish A. Dongre, Neeraj Hatekar
Structural Break In India's Growth, Ambrish A. Dongre, Neeraj Hatekar
Ambrish A Dongre
How significant was the shift in the economic growth performance that occurred in the 1950s, relative to the shift that is supposed to have occurred in the 1980s? If one were to identify the single most significant break date in India’s growth performance, does it turn out to be 1951-52 or 1980-81 or some such year in the post 1980s? The hypothesis in this paper is that the single most important trend break in GDP growth is to be found not in the 1980s, as the existing literature claims, but in the early 1950s. This is not because the performance …
Poverty And Malnutrition In India (Marathi), Ambrish A. Dongre
Poverty And Malnutrition In India (Marathi), Ambrish A. Dongre
Ambrish A Dongre
This article discusses how poverty is measured in India, evolution of poverty in India in the 1990s and problems associated with interpreting poverty numbers in the 55th round of NSS and comparing them with previous numbers.