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Food Preference and Nutrition in India
Paul, Sourabh - 2015
I present some estimates for India that demonstrate that structural changes in the impact of income on food demand have been significant factors driving the changes in dietary patterns in this rapidly growing economy. A Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System is estimated for six food groups. The...
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Social safety nets for food and nutritional security in India
Narayanan, Sudha; Gerber, Nicolas - 2016
, health and nutrition of beneficiaries. Both programs operate on a large scale and have the capacity to impact the factors …-scale programs on health and nutrition. The evidence that exists suggests largely positive impacts indicating a clear potential to … make these programs more nutrition sensitive not just by incorporating elements that would explicitly address nutritional …
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Does Food Security Influence the Nutritional Status in India? Empirical Evidences From State-Level Cross Sectional Study
Palanisamy, Venkatesh; Vellaichamy, Sangeetha; R, Sendhil; … - 2021
The Indian economy is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. While it achieved self-sufficiency in food production, India ironically also harbours the largest population in the world suffering from malnutrition-. This paper examines the food security status across the Indian states,...
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Improving children health and cognition : evidence from school-based nutrition intervention in India
Krämer, Marion; Kumar, Santosh; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2018
We present experimental evidence on the impact of delivering double-fortified salt (DFS), salt fortified with iron and iodine, through the Indian school-feeding program called "mid-day meal" on anemia, cognition, and math and reading scores of primary school children. We conducted a field...
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Synergies in Social Protection : Impacts of India’s MGNREGA and Public Distribution System on the Health and Nutrition of Women and Children
Narayanan, Sudha; Naraparaju, Karthikeya; Gerber, Nicolas - 2020
’s nutrition or health, even though this is not their main objective. At the same time, the effects are heterogeneous, confirming …
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The nutrition transition and the intra-household double burden of malnutrition in India
Dang, Archana; Meenakshi, J. V. - 2017
India is clearly far along in the nutrition transition. This paper shows that there have been rapid increases in the …
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Role of time preferences in explaining the burden of malnutrition : evidence from urban India
Dang, Archana - 2020
This study uses a simple theory model to examine how time preferences influence food choices made by individuals, which in turn have implications for their future health. The theory results demonstrate that individuals with higher bias for the present or lower patience will have poorer health...
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The Indian Public Distribution System as Provider of Food Security : Evidence from Child Nutrition in Andhra Pradesh
Tarozzi, Alessandro - 2008
Pradesh, a large Indian state, had a negative impact on child nutrition. A few months after the price increase, a health …
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Food Security in India
Shrivastava, Rahul - 2010
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...
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How can Food Subsidies Work Better? Answers from India and the Philippines
Jha, Shikha - 2014
This study explores the outcomes of food subsidies to the poor in the case of India and the Philippines. Both countries operate in-kind food subsidy programs with similar mandates, commonalities in functioning, and substantial budgetary outlays. The goal of the study is to quantify the gains to...
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