Poverty & Inequality

Evaluating the Effects of Targeted Transfers to 'Mahadalits' in Bihar

Rohini Somanathan

01 June 2013

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Notes from the Field

IGC Research on India

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The aim of this project is to examine how the transfer of assets to ultra-poor households under different Mahadalit inititatives influences their sense of well-being and their notions of identity. The study investigates the efficacy of targeting of the transfers to the Mahadalits and its welfare impacts.

Rohini Somanathan

Delhi School of Economics

Delhi School of Economics

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