This paper examines whether participation in workfare and food grain subsidy programs in India impacts health and …’s nutrition or health, even though this is not their main objective. At the same time, the effects are heterogeneous, confirming …

success. We examine the performance of safety net programs in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, and the Philippines in terms of …

yield and households' income. It has also been found to impact welfare in the form of improved health and school attendance …

, 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 …) and the Public Distribution System (PDS) in India, offering a narrative review of the evidence on impacts on food security …

Can large-scale social safety nets be nutrition sensitive even if they do not explicitly incorporate health and … nutrition as programmatic goals? This paper focuses on the consequences of a countrywide guaranteed workfare programme (MGNREGA …) and subsidised food distribution scheme (PDS) in India for the prevalence of anaemia, examining whether individuals in …

production, India ironically also harbours the largest population in the world suffering from malnutrition-. This paper examines … extracting National Family Health Survey-4 (2015-16) data, body mass index and anaemia-based indicators were analysed to study …

The public distribution system (PDS) has been one of the main policy instruments of the Government of India (GoI) to … that at an all-India level, 46.7 per cent or 25.9 MMTs of the off-taken grain did not reach the intended PDS beneficiaries … in 2011-12. The percent share of total leakage increased with states where greater percent of India's poor resided (five …

This paper is an attempt to analyze the impact of two of India's largest food security interventions - the Public …

There is growing debate about whether consumer subsidies related to nutrition programs should be more flexible …. Additional flexibility increases consumer welfare, but may hinder efforts towards achieving nutrition goals. We study how … policy debate. We apply the model to study and quantify the effects of supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP …