human
Case, Anne
Castes
Casual labor
Centers for Disease Control
Chattopadhyay, Raghabendra
Chavan, Madhav
Child mortality
Children
educated
family size and
as financial instruments
higher-caste/lower-caste
income and
Chlorin
Chlorine
Cica Das
Citibank
Civil liberties
Civil society
Cohen, Jessica
Coimbatore
Collier, Paul
Common Wealth (Sachs)
Community Driven Development
Conditional cash transfers (CCTs)
Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP)
Consumption
Contraception
access to
availability of
Corruption
fighting
Cortisol
Credit
Curriculum
Dai Manju
Das, Jishnu
Data
Deaton, Angus
Debt
freedom from
Decentralization
Decisionmaking
family
Default rates
Demand wallahs
Democracy
in practice
Depression
Development economics
Deworming
Dhaliwal, Iqbal
Diarrhea
treating
Dickens, Charles
Diet
poor and
rich and
Discrimination
Diseases
Doctor diseases, bhopa diseases and
Doctors
allopatic
government
private/public
Dreze, Jean
Drought
Dry sand, making
Duflo, Esther
fertilizer and
panchayat survey by
Dupas, Pascaline
study by
Earth Institute
East India Company College
Easterly,William
bed nets and
demand wallahs and
democracy and
poverty traps and
on RCT
Economic growth
Education
family size and
girls and
income and
investing in
parental interest in
poverty and
primary
quality
reengineering
remedial
secondary
value of
Education for All Summit (2000)
Education policy
demand wallahs and
supply wallahs and
tools of choice in
top-down
“Efficient household” model
Einstein, Albert
Elders, caring for
Emergency (1975–1977)
Emptat, Ibu
Entrepreneurs
micro-
rules of thumb and
Entrepreneurship
microcredit and
poor and
problems with
rates of return for
technologies and
Ethnicity
Experiment
Faith
Family
extended
function of
Family planning
encouraging
Family Planning and Maternal and Child Health Program (FPMCH)
Family size
education and
savings and
Farmers
insurance and
suicide of
Farming
Fertility
control over
decrease in
income and
rates
therapies
Fertilizer
buying
using
Field, Erica
Financial instruments, children as
Financial sector
Financing
Fish sauce
Fogel, Robert
Food
aid
availability of
budget for
consumption of
income and
prices
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Food prices
Foreign aid
Foster, Andrew
Foundation for International Community Assistance (FINCA)
Free markets
Fruit and vegetable sellers
Gandhi, Indira
Gandhi, Sanjay
Gates Foundation
Gibbons, Donna
Governments
credibility for
foreign aid and
local
problems for
Gram Panchayat (GP)
Gram Vikas
Grameen Bank
Green, Donald
Green, Jennifer
Green Revolution
Hammer, Jeff
Harlem Children’s Zone
Hartman, Betsey
Harvest Plus
Hatch, John
Health
free market economists and
improving
investing in
maternal
Health care
effectiveness of
family size and
immunizations and
learning about
overtreatment and
problem of
spending on
Health insurance
market for
problems with
providing
Health shocks
Health trap
Helms, Brigit
HIV/AIDS
Hope
Hospitalization
Hunger
Hyderabad
businesses in
schools in
survey in
Ibu Emptat
Ibu Tina
shock on fortunes of
ICICI
ICS Africa
Ideology
Immunization
benefits of
health care and
incentives for
information about
rates
Immunization camps
Income
agricultural
children and
decline in
drought and
education and
fertility and
food and
growth of
illness and
malaria and
steady/predictable
Indian Council of Medical Research
Indian Institute of Management
Indian Institute of Technology
Information
collecting
imperfect
Infosys
INPRES
Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)
Institutions
bad
colonial
economic
innovation by
international
manipulating
political
See also Microfinance institutions
Insurance
demand for
fraud
health
informal
poor and
understanding
weather
Insurance companies, poor and
Interest rates
poor and
International Child Support
Intervention
education
government
public supply-side
top-down
In
vestments
Iodine
Iron
Iron law of oligarchy
Iyer, Lakshmi
Jensen, Robert
Jobs
buying
good
Johnson, Simon
Jolie, Angelina
Karlan, Dean
KAS, bankruptcy of
Kecamatan Development Project (KDP)
Kennedy (farmer)
Keynes, John Maynard
Khanna,Tarun
Khetan, Neelima
Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) schools
Kremer, Michael
on chlorine dispenser
fertilizers and
SAFI and
Kristof, Nicholas
L-shape curve
Law Commission of India
Learning and Educational Achievement in Pakistan Schools (LEAPS)
Learning to Read
Lehman Brothers
Lei, Miao
Levy, Santiago
Loans
collecting on
emergency
government-sponsored
home-equity
home improvement
local
long-term project
mandatory
political priorities and
poor and
problems with
repaying
London School of Economics
Lotteries, business grant
M-PESA
Macro programs, micro insight for
Madiath, Joe
Malaria
eradication of
Malnutrition
Malthus,Thomas
Maquilladoras
Margin, changes at
Marginal return
Maternal mortality
Matlab program
Mbarbk, Oucha
Medicare
Medicine
Meillassoux, Claude
Microcredit
effectiveness of
limits of
poor/future and
Microfinance
contracts
movement
Microfinance (continued)
poor and
poverty and
repayment discipline and
Microfinance institutions (MFIs)
borrowing from
insurance for
loans from
microcredit and
monitoring by
poor and
subsidizing of
successful borrowers and
zero default and
See also Institutions
Micronutrient Initiative
Micronutrients
Migration
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
Miller, Nolan
Miracles, underutilized
Modimba, Anna
Modimba, Michael
Moneylenders
MFIs and
problems for
Monitoring
Mor, Nachiket
Moral hazards
Moyo, Dambisa
Mullainathan, Sendhil
Munshi, Kaivan
Murthy, Narayan
National Family Health Survey (NFHS 3)
NGOs
Nilekani, Nandan
Nudges
Nurses
Nutrition
calories and
family size and
income and
obesity/diabetes and
poverty traps and
pregnancy and
Olken, Benjamin
Olympic Games, poor countries and
Omidyar, Pierry
One-child policy
OPORTUNIDADES
Opportunities
Opportunity International
Oral rehydration solution (ORS)
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Orwell, George
Otieno, Wycliffe
Pak Awan
Pak Solhin
poverty trap and
Pak Sudarno
Pande, Rohini
Parmentier, Antoine
Paternalism
Paxson, Chris
Pensions
Performance
Pitt, Mark
Police Act (1861)
Police Reform Commissions
Policies
anti-poverty
developing
education
food
good/bad
macroeconomic
one-child
politics and
population
social
Political economy
Politics
economics and
ethnic
good
policies and
women and
Population control
Population Council
Population growth
Population policy
Population Services International (PSI)
Poverty
breaking cycle of
decrease in
education and
eradicating
extreme
fertility and
hunger and
microfinance and
self-control and
Poverty Action Lab
Poverty trap
education and
escaping
health-based
inverted L-shape and
nutrition and
S-shape curve and
Pradhan
Prahalad, C. K.
Pratham
ASER and
education and
government school system and
private schools versus
Pregnancy
breast-feeding and
early
Primary Health Care (PHC)
Pritchett, Lant
Private schools
Pratham versus
public schools versus
Productivity
Profamilia
PROGRESA
Property rights
Public health
investments in
Public Report on Basic Education (PROBE)
PUKK
Qian, Nancy
Rainfall
Rakshin Program
Raman, V.
Raman Boards
Randomized control trials (RCTs)
Rayatwari system
Read India
Reading
Reading to Learn
Reddy, Padmaja
story of
Rede Globo
Reinikka, Ritva
Resources
governmental
intellectual
poor and
Responsibilities
Reuters
Right to Education Act
Right to Food Act
Risk
limiting
poor and
Robinson, James
on institutions
Robinson, Jonathan
fertilizer and
SAFI and
Romer, Paul
Rosenzweig, Mark
Rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs)
Rules of thumb
Rutherford, Stuart
S-shape curve
described
illusory
S-shape curve, (continued)
income/nutrition and
micro-entrepreneurs and
poverty trap and
Sachs, Jeffrey
bed nets and
corruption and
malaria/poverty and
optimism/impatience of
poverty trap and
Sauri and
SafeSave
Salt, fortified
Sarva Skisha Aviyan (SSA)
Sauri, visiting
Save the Children
Savings
family size and
goals for
micro-
poor and
psychology of
self-control and
Savings and Fertilizer Initiative (SAFI)
School uniforms
Schooling
pay off of
quality of
Schools
accountability for
budget for
elite
enrollment
failure of
improving
organization of
Schultz,T. Paul
Schultz,Theodore
Security
Self-control
Self-employment
Self-help groups (SHGs)
Sen, Amartya
Sengupta, Somini
Seva Mandir
camps by
immunization and
Sex
Sex-determination services
Shantarama
Share
Shleifer, Andrei
Singer, Peter
SKS Microfinance
Social norms
Social Security
South African Council of Churches (SACC)
Spandana
microfinance program of
repayment crisis and
Steele, Claude
Sterilization
Strauss, John
Subsidies
Sugar daddies
Suharto
Sunk-cost effect
Sunstein, Cass
Supply-demand wars
Supply wallahs
Svensson, Jakob
Swayam Shakti
Tamayo, Fernando
TAMTAM (Together Against Malaria)
Teachers
behavior of
higher-caste
mission of
private-school
public-school
volunteer/semi-volunteer
Technology
entrepreneurship and
food
information
preventive
production
sex-selection
using
Television, importance of
Temptation goods
Testing
Textbooks
Thaler, Richard
Three Is problem
3–3-3 rule
Time inconsistency
Townsend, Robert
Transparency International
Truman, Harry
Udaipur
absences in
health centers in
health survey in
immunization camps in
poor in
Udry, Christopher
United Nations, aid spending by
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Unitus
Uttar Pradesh
experiment in
poverty in
sterilization in
Uwezo Survey
Vaccines
Village education committees (VECs)
Village Welfare Society
Voting
Wantchekon, Leonard
Water
availability of
chlorination of
public investment in
“We Are the World” concert
Wealth
in 1999/2005 in Thailand
curves
food and