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Prabhat P. Ghosh
Professor Ghosh has been doing has been doing research in economics for last 30 years, specialising in the field of regional planning, rural development, evaluation of economic projects and large scale statistical surveys. Important works include, ‘A Regional Planning Model for Bihar’ (1976), ‘Agro-economic Survey of Bihar’ (1978), ‘Pattern of Sectoral Development in a Periphery : Case of Bihar (1978), Temporary Migration of Rural Labour and Employment in Bihar’ (1993), and ‘Literacy and Development : The Case of Dumka’ (1997). Before joining the Asian Development Research Institute, Patna in 1995, Professor Ghosh had been a faculty member at the A N S Institute of Social Studies, Patna (1967-80, 1983-94) and National Labour Institute (1980-83).
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भारत सरकार के मातृत्व सहायता कार्यक्रम - प्रधानमंत्री मातृ वंदना योजना- का उद्देश्य ग्रामीण भारत में गर्भवती महिलाओं और स्तनपान कराने वाली माताओं को आय सहायता मुहैया कराना है। इस लेख में बिहार में चलाए गए इस कार्यक्रम का मूल्यांकन किया गया है, जिसमें पाया गया कि भुगतान में देरी होने के बावजूद इस योजना की वजह से पहले बच्चे के स्वास्थ्य में महत्वपूर्ण सुधार हुआ। इसकी संभावित वजह है पहले और दूसरे जन्म के बीच अंतराल में बढ़ोतरी।
Expected income support and child health
Government of India’s maternity support programme – Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana – seeks to provide income support to pregnant women and lactating mothers in rural India. Evaluating the programme in Bihar, this article finds that even though payments are delayed, the programme leads to significant improvement in the first child’s health. The likely channel is an increase in the interval between the first and second birth
Maternal Hours of Work during Pregnancy: An Evaluation of a CCT Programme in India
The Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojana (IGMSY) is a conditional cash transfer (CCT) aimed at expectant mothers in the informal sector, aiming to provide the income to enable a reduction in work hours in late pregnancy and immediately following delivery. This project studied the effect of IGMSY on maternal hours of work and the causal effect of hours of work on maternal and child health.
Improving Child Health and Schooling
This project collected information on whether the child received a health report card (and checkup), as well as attendance data for that child for each month of the school year. Combining this with information on the month of the school visit by the Public Health Centre team, the project assess whether the programme affected absenteeism, and how the design of the programme affected the relationship between attendance rates and programme coverage.