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finds that becoming a victim of conflict leads to higher food insecurity and decreased consumption. Since different types of … perpetrator. The study finds that events perpetrated by insurgents are the most detrimental to consumption, whereas food … detrimental to consumption and food insecurity than are violent events. Likewise, it finds suggestive evidence that violent events …
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triple burden of malnutrition: undernourishment, micronutrient deficiencies and over-nutrition. Consumption of a diverse diet … dietary diversity profile across adjoining regions highlights the persistence of uneven development in terms of consumption …
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The Planning Commission constituted, in September 1989, an 'Expert Group' to consider methodological and computational aspects of estimation of proportion and number of poor in India. [Planning Commission].
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differences in consumption and production patterns, as well as natural resource use. …
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Using the recent rounds of NSS data, this paper evaluates the performance and outreach of India's public distribution system (PDS) in the rural areas. The results suggest a significant improvement in the performance of PDS in terms of its outreach and offtake. States like Bihar and Jharkhand...
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particularly arising from higher rural wages, rising agricultural cost of production, changing consumption pattern favoring protein …
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attain the subsistence level of consumption. Thus, zero percent is taken as a threshold level to define catastrophic health …
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India Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) 2006 and Global School Personnel Survey (GSPS) 2006 were undertaken region-wise, namely, North, South, East, West, Central and North East, covering 99.7% of the total population of India. Altogether, 12,086 students and 2,926 school personnel from 180...
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The study attempts to examine the impact of remittances on macroeconomic activities (private consumption and investment …) and its implications on economic growth in India for the period from 1966-67 to 2003-04. Estimating a general consumption …, consistently have a positive influence on private consumption. [WP no. 407]. …
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Major shifts in the policy initiated in the electricity sector are well documented so that the effect of this policy change can be analyzed especially from the point of view of laying down future policies in the power sector. [Report Planning Commission]....
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