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The National Food Security Act (NFSA) 2013 : challenges, buffer stocking and the way forward
Saini, Shweta; Gulati, Ashok - 2015
The National Food Security Act (NFSA) 2013 combines and expands the scope of some existing food-based welfare schemes. It will be distributing raw rations, meal(s) and/or cash. Approximately 81.35 crore persons or 16.57 crore households are to benefit under the targeted public distribution...
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Do free goods stick to poor households? : Experimental evidence on insecticide treated bednets
Hoffmann, Vivian (contributor);  … - 2008 - Rev.
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El Niño and Indian droughts : a scoping exercise
Saini, Shweta; Gulati, Ashok - 2014
Weather experts around the world are foreseeing a strong El Niño in 2014. In India, these developments are feared to lead to droughts. In the last 14 years, out of the four El Niño years globally, three resulted in Indian droughts. Since the 1980s, all the six droughts faced by India were in...
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Agricultural technology, productivity, poverty and food security in Madagascar
Minten, Bart (contributor);  … - 2005
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Monsoon 2013 : estimating the impact on agriculture
Gulati, Ashok; Saini, Shweta; Jain, Surbhi - 2013
Product (GDP) growth in India. The model hypothesizes that the performance of agriculture in India depends upon (1 …) investments in agriculture (private and public); (2) agricultural price incentives; and (3) rainfall. A log-linear model fitted … place in agriculture over this period. Other variables remain the same. This model also suggests that the agri-GDP growth …
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Evolution and critique of buffer stocking policy of India
Saini, Shweta; Kozicka, Marta - 2014
famines, such grain stocks are a conduit deployed by the government to foster the country's agriculture development and food …
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Leakages from Public Distribution System (PDS) and the way forward
Gulati, Ashok; Saini, Shweta - 2015
The public distribution system (PDS) has been one of the main policy instruments of the Government of India (GoI) to provide food security to the people of this country, especially the vulnerable ones. The recently enacted National Food Security Act (NFSA), 2013, also relies heavily on it to...
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