Tag Search: “nutrition”
Malnutrition and the National Food Security Act
The National Food Security Act aims to remove hunger and reduce malnutrition by providing subsidised foodgrains to two-thirds of the population. Using nationally representative data, this column finds...
- Anders Kjelsrud Rohini Somanathan
- 31 October, 2017
- Articles
Women empowerment in nutrition: Role of common pool resources
Absence of effective public service delivery and well-functioning markets makes the rural poor highly dependent on common pool resources such as forests and water resources for their livelihoods. In ...
- Nirali Bakhla
- 15 September, 2017
- Notes from the Field
Women empowerment in nutrition: Role of seasonality in food security
In this note, Ankita Mondal provides an account of the impact of seasonality on nutrition and livelihoods of the rural poor, especially women.
- Ankita Mondal
- 14 September, 2017
- Notes from the Field
Women empowerment in nutrition : Ideas of empowerment
As part of the ‘Women’s Empowerment in Nutrition Index’ project, a group of researchers spoke with rural women and community workers from Araria in Bihar, and Ganjam, Rayagada, Kandhmal, and Nayagarh...
- Sudha Narayanan
- 13 September, 2017
- Notes from the Field
Midday meals scheme: Are corruption claims exaggerated?
Soon after Aadhaar was made compulsory for availing midday meals in schools, the government claimed that the move had helped expose several instances of schools siphoning off funds under the scheme by...
- Monika Yadav
- 31 July, 2017
- Articles
Health policy and economic growth in India
A new synthesis paper (Menon 2017) produced by the International Growth Centre brings together evidence from various health-related IGC studies on India undertaken over the past seven years, to draw i...
- Nalini Gulati Nidhiya Menon
- 27 July, 2017
- Perspectives
Leaving stunting behind: Evidence from ethnic Indians in England
Despite impressive rates of economic growth in recent decades, India remains one of the worst-performing countries worldwide in terms of height, among children and adults. This column shows that heigh...
- Caterina Alacevich Alessandro Tarozzi
- 27 April, 2017
- Articles
Price risk and poverty
A common feature of markets in many developing economies is a lack of integration. This leads to substantial variation in prices of basic commodities across space, and risk to households from local su...
- Lucie Gadenne Monica Singhal Sandip Sukhtankar
- 31 March, 2017
- IGC Research on India
Early life nutrition and future educational outcomes: Findings from ICDS
Integrated Child Development Services – India’s flagship child nutrition programme – has recently suffered a major cut in funding. This column shows that supplementary nutrition provided under the pro...
- Ramanan Laxminarayan Arindam Nandi
- 25 April, 2016
- Articles
Causes and consequences of low caloric intake in India: Nutrition, productivity, and cognition
Many of the world’s poor consume very few calories. Because calories are not just consumption, but also an input into production, this low consumption may dampen labour productivity and impede decisio...
- Sendhil Mullainathan Heather Schofield
- 31 March, 2016
- IGC Research on India
Can microcredit improve food security among the rural poor?
A core objective of microcredit in Bangladesh is to make the rural poor more food secure. To what extent has this been achieved? Analysing household data from Bangladesh, this column finds that parti...
- Asad Islam Chandana Maitra Debayan Pakrashi Russell Smyth
- 28 September, 2015
- Articles
Elucidating avenues for corruption: Micronutrient fortification strategies in India’s Midday Meals Programme
Globally, iron deficiency is a leading cause of anaemia, a condition that is particularly harmful during early childhood, causing fatigue and slower physical and cognitive development with potentially...
- James Berry Saurabh Mehta Priya Mukherjee Gauri Kartini Shastry
- 30 July, 2015
- IGC Research on India