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Food Security and Small Landholders in South Asia
Jha, Raghbendra - 2015
This paper surveys the status of food security in the South Asian countries, particularly India. Particular attention has been paid to small landholders (those households owning less than 2 hectares of land). Using NSS data from 1993-94 and 2004-05 the paper shows that small landholders are an...
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Food Security and Small Landholders in South Asia
Jha, Raghbendra - 2011
This paper surveys the status of food security in the South Asian countries, particularly India. Particular attention has been paid to small landholders (those households owning less than 2 hectares of land). Using NSS data from 1993-94 and 2004-05 the paper shows that small landholders are an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014189358
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Global income distribution and poverty : implications from the IPCC SRES scenarios
Calzadilla, Alvaro - 2010
The Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES) has been widely used to analyze climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation. The storylines behind these scenarios outline alternative development pathways, which have been the base for climate research and other studies at global,...
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Poverty and food security in India
Himanshu - 2013
This paper is an attempt to analyze the impact of two of India's largest food security interventions - the Public Distribution System (PDS) and the Mid Day Meal Scheme (MDM) - on poverty outcomes and on nutritional intake. This paper offers a simple methodology to take into account the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010192329
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Social dimension of inclusive growth in ECOWAS : implication for poverty reduction
Anu, Toriola K.; Emmanuel, Goerge O.; Felix, Ajayi O. - In: CBN journal of applied statistics 13 (2022) 1, pp. 265-288
comprising of in- come inequality, education, and health outcomes affect poverty reduction. The study uses a panel dataset of the …-GMM). The results show that GDP per capita exerts significant negative effect on poverty while inequality, education and health … outcomes do not show significant effect on poverty. Although, the estimates of inequality, health and education outcomes are …
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Cash or Food Security through the Public Distribution System? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Delhi, India
Gangopadhyay, Shubhashis - 2012
This paper examines a randomized intervention in Delhi, India, that provided unconditional cash transfer to a group of households as a replacement for food security by means of a below poverty line card. A special feature of our study is that our experiment allows to differentiate between...
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Poverty and Food Security in India
2013
This paper is an attempt to analyze the impact of two of India's largest food security interventions — the Public Distribution System (PDS) and the Mid Day Meal Scheme (MDM) — on poverty outcomes and on nutritional intake. This paper offers a simple methodology to take into account the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076446
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Financial Inclusion, Cash Benefit and Public Distribution System
Dutta, Tanima - 2016
reducing poverty but direct provision of food grains has helped masses to fight inflation. Poverty reduction is the corner …
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Socio-Economic Determinants of Food Security in India : A Quantile Regression Analysis
Bhuyan, Biswabhusan - 2018
This study examines determinants of food security in India at the household level using National Sample Survey (NSS) data. Determinants are categorised into two groups (1) social and (2) economic. Quantile regression (QR) has applied to identify intra-distributional effects; Ordinary least...
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A latent class analysis of the demand for food diversity in India
Steffen, Christoph; Yu, Xiaohua - 2018
In this paper we study the latent demand structure for food diversity in India using data from the 2012 Consumer Expenditure Survey. We assume that consumers who have not yet attained calorie sufficiency favor calories over food diversity and once passing a threshold of subsistence substitute...
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