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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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Learning and behavioral spillovers of nutritional information
Prakarsh Singh - 2016
This paper provides evidence for informational spillovers within urban slums in Chandigarh, India. I identify three groups, a treatment group, a neighboring spillover group, and a non-adjacent pure control group. Mothers of children (aged 3-6 years) enrolled in government day-care centers are...
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Poverty, Undernutrition and Vulnerability in Rural India : Public Works Versus Food Subsidy
Jha, Raghbendra - 2011
public food subsidy programme, on consumption poverty, vulnerability and undernutrition in India drawing, on the large … food for work programmes on poverty, undernutrition (e.g. protein) and vulnerability in 1993 and 2004. Indeed, poverty and … undernutrition were significantly higher for households with access to PDS than for those without, although PDS had significant …
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Explaining cross-state disparities in child nutrition in Rural India
Cavatorta, Elisa; Shankar, Bhavani; Flores-Martinez, … - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 76 (2015), pp. 216-237
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Achieving Zero Hunger in India : Challenges and Policies
Mahendra Dev, S. (ed.); Ganesh-Kumar, A. (ed.);  … - 2024
Satisfaction -- Chapter 11. Exploring The Prevalence of Undernutrition and Consumers’ Knowledge, Preferences and Willingness to Pay …
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Leakages from Public Distribution System (PDS) and the way forward
Gulati, Ashok; Saini, Shweta - 2015
The public distribution system (PDS) has been one of the main policy instruments of the Government of India (GoI) to provide food security to the people of this country, especially the vulnerable ones. The recently enacted National Food Security Act (NFSA), 2013, also relies heavily on it to...
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Evolution and critique of buffer stocking policy of India
Saini, Shweta; Kozicka, Marta - 2014
India's economic standing and its policy landscape have come a long way since the 1943 Bengal famine. History saw buffer stocking of food grains as a famine-combating tool. Today, apart from serving as an effective hedge in times of famines, such grain stocks are a conduit deployed by the...
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Social hierarchies and public distribution of food in rural India
Basu, Deepankar; Das, Debarshi - 2014
In this paper, we develop a simple model that shows that consumption of PDS food grains is significantly different between rich and poor households in states where the PDS functions relatively well; in places where the PDS is non-functional, the difference is not significant. Using...
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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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The challenge of food security : strategies to reduce global hunger and malnutrition
Cleaver, Kevin M.; Okidegbe, Nwanze; Nys, Erwin de - In: Global issues for global citizens : an introduction to …, (pp. 145-163). 2006
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