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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 … that at an all-India level, 46.7 per cent or 25.9 MMTs of the off-taken grain did not reach the intended PDS beneficiaries … in 2011-12. The percent share of total leakage increased with states where greater percent of India's poor resided (five …
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Indian food and welfare schemes : scope for digitization towards cash transfers
Saini, Shweta; Sharma, Sameedh; Gulati, Ashok; Hussain, … - 2017
The paper presents a case for a phased rolling out of direct benefits transfer (DBT) for Food in India. By studying all …
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Evolution and critique of buffer stocking policy of India
Saini, Shweta; Kozicka, Marta - 2014
India's economic standing and its policy landscape have come a long way since the 1943 Bengal famine. History saw …-scarce, food-importing country, India has emerged as a grain-surplus and a net grain-exporting country. The production base is … in the godowns of the Food Corporation of India (FCI) and its nominated state agencies, raising questions about the …
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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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Effect of farming system for nutrition on nutritional intakes : a study of two regions in India
DJ, Nithya; Raju, S; Bhavani, R. V.; Panda, Akshaya Kumar; … - 2020
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The impact of governance and capital flows on food and nutrition security and undernourishment : further evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Cassimon, Danny; Fadare, Olusegun Ayodeji; Mavrotas, George - 2022
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Multilevel determinants of childhood undernutrition among low-income urban and rural households in the Philippines
Siy Van, Vanessa T.; Sales, Zarah G.; Gordoncillo, … - 2021
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Food systems and the escape from poverty and illhealth traps in sub-Saharan Africa
Barrett, Christopher B. (contributor) - 2008 - Rev.
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Agriculture for nutrition : getting policies right
Pingali, Prabhu L.; Ricketts, Katie; Sahn, David E. - 2014
The past fifty years have been a period of extraordinary food crop productivity growth, despite rising populations and increasing land scarcity, largely due to the Green Revolution. Despite these massive gains in productivity, malnutrition has persisted for close to a billion people in the...
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Public and private returns to investing in nutrition
Alderman, Harold; Sahn, David E. - 2015
Although nutrition contributes to welfare in and of itself, it also contributes to individual economic productivity, as well as national income growth. The argument that improving nutrition is an investment on par with other productivity-enhancing expenditures rather than simply a form of...
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