Employment elasticity with respect to agriculture value added in South Asia has weakened in recent years. While crop … India in 1993 and 2004, we first review the changes in participation rates in farm and non-farm activities by gender, age … between farm and non-farm activities. Also, the welfare of self-employed in agriculture became more sensitive to rainfall …

Our analysis illustrates one pathway between agriculture and nutrition through production of nutrients by crop and size … as well as through livestock. As this pathway is subsumed in agriculture and nutrition studies focusing on anthropometric …

Targeted Public Distribution Scheme (TPDS) represent two alternative social safety nets instituted in India as anti …

requirements due to health improvements and lower activity levels in India, we develop an alternative explanation embedded in a …

Based on data collected from a representative national sample, India Human Development Survey 2005, this paper …

Using National Sample Survey data for rural India we examine the incidence of capture in two workfare programs in rural … India: the Rural Public Works and the Food for Work Programs for 1993-94 and 2004-05 respectively. We discover a high degree …

Recent high rates of economic growth in India have been accompanied by major dietary transitions. Using a nationwide … household survey, India Human Development Survey 2005, this paper estimates the impact of such transitions on the incidence of … non communicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes, coronary heart disease and cancer in India. The estimated deaths from …