This paper argues that the relation between temptations and the level of consumption plays a key role in explaining the …

triple burden of malnutrition: undernourishment, micronutrient deficiencies and over-nutrition. Consumption of a diverse diet … dataset from India, analyzes the determinants of dietary diversity, which is measured using the Entropy Index. Heterogeneous … dietary diversity profile across adjoining regions highlights the persistence of uneven development in terms of consumption …

aspects of estimation of proportion and number of poor in India. [Planning Commission]. …

Using the recent rounds of NSS data, this paper evaluates the performance and outreach of India's public distribution …

Food inflation in India has remained stubborn in recent years. A number of proximate factors such as increasing demand … particularly arising from higher rural wages, rising agricultural cost of production, changing consumption pattern favoring protein … dominant role in the determination of overall food inflation in India in the long-run. …

The report investigate the relationship between growth and deprivation in India, an issue of immense interest. Given … the continuing controversy in India over poverty lines, they used a framework that rigorously assesses the impact of … growth on the poor over a range of poverty lines. Using National sample Surveys on consumption expenditure, they have showed …

attain the subsistence level of consumption. Thus, zero percent is taken as a threshold level to define catastrophic health …