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with other socioeconomic and government policy variables affect food security. Food security and poverty are interlinked …
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poverty module (GlobPov), we assess the implication of the IPCC SRES scenarios on global poverty and inequality. We find that … global poverty and inequality measures are sensitive to the downscaling methodology used. Our results show that future … economic growth is crucial for poverty reduction. Higher per capita incomes tend to favour poverty reduction, while higher …
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Distribution System (PDS) and the Mid Day Meal Scheme (MDM) - on poverty outcomes and on nutritional intake. This paper offers a … the significant impact of the PDS and MDM in terms of poverty reduction and calorie intake. While there are large … also contributed significantly to poverty reduction. Almost half of the poverty reduction in the distribution …
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How would climate change affect India’s agriculture which accounts for sixty percent of employment? We study the impact of climate change on the level and variability of yields of rice (India’s major food crop) and two key millet crops (sorghum and pearl millet), using an all India district...
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This paper estimates the impact of climate change on foodgrain yields in India, namely rice and millets. We estimate a crop-specific agricultural production function with exogenous climate variables, namely, precipitation and temperature and control for key inputs such as irrigation, fertilizer...
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This paper attempts to estimate the impact of PDS on poverty and calorie deficiency. First we have undertaken an … access to the PDS. Next we estimate its impact on poverty levels (as is conventionally defined) due to the existence of the …
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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 …
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deprivation and poverty, and argue against delinking of the two. We analyse poverty nutrition traps, whether child undernutrition …
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