This paper is an attempt to analyze the impact of two of India's largest food security interventions - the Public …

poverty incidence among the north-eastern states of India. Poverty indices for all the states in the NE region are calculated … PDS does not affect poverty incidence significantly among the north-eastern states of India …

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 …

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 …

This paper examines a randomized intervention in Delhi, India, that provided unconditional cash transfer to a group of …