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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...

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Food Security and Small Landholders in South Asia

Jha, Raghbendra - 2015

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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...

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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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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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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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Poverty, Undernutrition and Vulnerability in Rural India : Public Works Versus Food Subsidy

Jha, Raghbendra - 2011

This paper analyses the effects of access to Rural Public Works (RPW) and the Public Distribution System (PDS), a public food subsidy programme, on consumption poverty, vulnerability and undernutrition in India drawing, on the large household datasets constructed with National Sample Survey...

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Diets, Nutrition and Poverty : The Indian Experience

Gaiha, Raghav; Jha, Raghbendra; Kulkarni, Vani S. - 2014

This paper focuses on the Indian experience with dietary changes, their nutritional implications, and policy response to alleviate nutritional deprivation. We review the evidence on nutrient intake and dietary changes, particularly the downward shift in calorie, protein and other nutrient intake...

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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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