Background

Microfinance groups are a prominent source of small-scale rural credit in many developing countries.

MGNREGA was introduced in India in 2005 with the aim to improve the livelihood of rural Indian households.

More than 98 million adolescent girls are not in school. Can girls inuence their schooling without changes in their family's economic environment?

ABOUT THIS NOTE

Home to one-quarter of humanity—one-fifth of whom are youth—South Asia has the world’s largest concentration of poverty and malnutrition (1–3).

Introduction

•  Women’s diet is one of the immediate determinants of maternal and child nutrition

Objectives

The income reporting behaviour of wealthy Indians is a critical public finance issue. It has remained under-researched due to the lack of data sources required for the purpose.

Season’s greetings! The 47th issue of POSHAN’s Abstract Digest features studies on maternal nutrition, anemia, and infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices.

In 2005, India passed the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA, “the Act”), a law guaranteeing all rural households 100 days of work at a minimum wage through the building of durable assets, which created one of the largest anti-poverty

Women’s Voice & Agency beyond the household (VABH) has increasingly been recognized as critical to strengthening resilience, increasing women’s access to important resources, improving women’s decision-making power, and facilitating broader so

Uttar Pradesh, situated in the northern part of India, accounts for 7.3 percent of the country’s area, includes 75 districts subdivided into 822 blocks, 97,914 populated villages, and 915 cities and towns (Uttar Pradesh State Government 2017).