This paper uses willingness to pay (WTP) data from a field experiment in Hyderabad, India in 2013 to determine whether …

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 …

In 2004, following the election of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA), India began to introduce a … emergence of these two initiatives in India. This includes the political and civil society imperatives that shaped the design … constitute the poorest inhabitants of rural India, have disproportionately benefitted from the MGNREGA, weakening traditional …

The paper presents a case for a phased rolling out of direct benefits transfer (DBT) for Food in India. By studying all …