India's approach to social security stresses the provision of subsidized food and public works. Targeted, unconditional … based on national household survey data and surveys on social pension utilization in two of India's states, Karnataka and … level of leakage. We hypothesize that social pensions suffer less from corruption than India's other safety net programs …

framework, with food prices and expenditure (as a proxy for income) cast in a pivotal role. Based on different experiments … urban areas. Our results show consistently robust food price and expenditure effects. Besides, shifts in food price …

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 …

India has a federal system of governance with both the state or provincial and the Central governments responsible for … variations in economic conditions in turn. It is in this context, this paper examines whether governments in India within a … indicate that Government in India within a federal framework has mechanisms that foster development equitably across its states …

Authority (PFRDA) Bill expeditiously. India should also encourage pension research and education with a view to developing …

this view. The paper uses India as a case-study to illustrate its argument. …