We investigate whether food price subsidies affect household nutrition using a dramatic expansion of the availability of subsidized rice in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh in the early 2000's. Households in Chhattisgarh increased their consumption of pulses, animal-based protein, and produce...

Every minute, at least one woman dies from pregnancy and childbirth complications; a further 20 suffer injury, infection or disease. Despite medical advances, and years of policy declarations, this tragic situation remains particularly severe in developing countries, violating a fundamental...

In the context of the growth of new ICTs, in 2010 ABT Associates, a partner in the Population Council-led consortium conducted a study to assess (a) the status of ICT use in the health sector; (b) the existing and emerging ICT applications that have the potential to rapidly accelerate the...

In the year 1975, the Indian government initiated the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), the largest national program in the world targeting long-term nutrition and holistic development of children, to be implemented through the Anganwadi Centers (AWC). Combining differences across...

This article mainly focuses on the concept of development keeping in view the basic right to food of an individual. This has been analysed critically in the context of India and it goes further to the extent of positive comparison between India and its contemporary countries. It is very...

With increasing burden of chronic diseases in India and the consequent increase in private expenditure on health care, the inability of poor households to meet healthcare cost is leading to increasing impoverishment on account of unanticipated health shocks. In the absence of an adequate and an...

The most significant criteria for the continued growth rate of an economy rests on the provision of quality infrastructure. The Indian government finds it difficult to provide the required financial and technical resources and the executive capacity to cope with the rising demand for roads,...

In this paper, we argue that in a supply deficient situation, a vaccination strategy that makes use of an analysis of the different stages of the Covid waves and the pattern of their geographical spread can prove to be far more effective than the current non-transparent mechanism of interstate...

With India’s low life expectancy largely reflecting deaths from preventable diseases, the most significant gains in health would come from population-wide preventive measures. Access to public health care services varies substantially, resulting in many people turning to private-sector...