, reductions in the incidence and severity of poverty, as well as nutritional improvements. The study suggests that the welfare … gains of PDS in terms of income transfer were very meager and the impact on poverty and nutritional status minimal. The … study places PDS in the context of other anti-poverty programs and provides a brief review of the findings from previous …

This study analyses the changes in prevalence of undernutrition between the 1980s and 1990s at the national and sub … household surveys to derive a household-specific norm as the calorie cutoff point to measure undernutrition, instead of the …

public food subsidy programme, on consumption poverty, vulnerability and undernutrition in India drawing, on the large … evaluating the effects of RPW or PDS on poverty. …

seasonal famines force millions of people to succumb to poverty and hunger. An incentive of $8.50 is assigned to households in …

since the late 1990s conclude that aid increases economic growth. By implication, therefore, it can be inferred that poverty …. A downturn in volumes in the 1990s is demonstrated. It asserts that poverty is higher and the MDGs are hard to achieve …

scheduled commercial banks and the changes in below poverty line population. The result suggests that the growth in bank … accounts is not significantly associated with the reduction in below poverty line population across states. As a poverty …