Abstract
Three decades of sustained growth have contributed to a halving of Indian poverty rates. Yet one in every four Indians is still classified as being extremely poor and lives on less than US$1.90 a day (Narayan and Murgai 2016).1 Further, income inequality in India is fast rising with limited changes in the well-being of many poor rural households. How can public policy in India best respond to the economic needs of its poor rural citizens?
Citation
Field, E and Pande, R. 2018. Evaluating the economic impacts of rural banking: experimental evidence from southern India, 3ie Impact Evaluation Report 85. New Delhi: International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie). Available at: https://doi.org/10.23846/OW3IE85