Tag Search: “food security”
In-kind transfers: Deadweight losses or gains?
Do in-kind transfers for social assistance lead to ‘deadweight losses’ by restricting consumer choice? This article presents findings from an experiment in Maharashtra, which involved offering low-inc...
- Klaus Abbink Gaurav Datt Lata Gangadharan Digvijay S. Negi Bharat Ramaswami
- 16 October, 2024
- Articles
Impact of the Food Security Act on Public Distribution System
‘Leakages’ from the Public Distribution System – that is, grain released by the Food Corporation of India that fails to reach consumers – stood at around 42% in 2011-12 at an all-India level. Passed i...
- Reetika Khera
- 03 October, 2024
- Perspectives
Grain subsidies and junk food purchases among low-income individuals
While governments rely on expensive food subsidy programmes to address malnutrition among low-income communities, their impact is unclear as only self-reported data on food purchase decisions are avai...
- Ali Aouad Kamalini Ramdas Alp Sungu
- 23 September, 2024
- Notes from the Field
Why are canteens important when 800 million people get free grains?
Over the past decade, canteens have been established in various parts of India to provide subsidised meals and enhance food security. Based on a survey of canteens conducted across three states, Reeti...
- Reetika Khera
- 02 September, 2024
- Notes from the Field
100 million tonnes of cereals are missing… every year
In an earlier I4I post, Drèze and Oldiges drew attention to India’s ‘cereal gap’ – a large difference between net availability of cereals and household consumption. In this post, they use recently rel...
- Jean Drèze Christian Oldiges
- 05 July, 2024
- Perspectives
Food, fuel, and facts: Distributional effects of global price shocks
The recent upsurge in global prices of essential commodities of food and fuel, warrants an analysis of the distributional ramifications, especially within developing economies. This article examines I...
- Saroj Bhattarai Arpita Chatterjee Gautham Udapa
- 20 June, 2024
- Articles
The ‘cereal gap’: Looming issues in India’s foodgrain policy
Cereal production in India recently crossed 300 million tonnes for the first time. In this post, Drèze and Oldiges point out that a major gap has emerged between the net availability of cereals and ho...
- Jean Drèze Christian Oldiges
- 18 April, 2024
- Perspectives
Growth, well-being and distribution in the last decade – II
In the first part of this two-part series, Balakrishnan and Parameswaran presented an assessment of the performance of the Indian economy on macroeconomic indicators. In this post, they focus on well-...
- Pulapre Balakrishnan M. Parameswaran
- 22 March, 2024
- Perspectives
The tribal communities of central India: Challenges and way forward
The ‘Status of Adivasi Livelihoods’ Report has once again brought attention to the dire situation of tribes in central India. Based on a survey of tribal households in Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh, ...
- Dibyendu Chaudhuri Parijat Ghosh
- 16 February, 2024
- Notes from the Field
What explains policy change? Understanding the historical political economy of India
Drawing on insights from his new book, ‘History of Economic Policy in India’, Rahul De frames policy change as precipitating through three circumstances: crisis, coalitions, and contingency. He uses h...
- Rahul De
- 05 January, 2024
- Perspectives
Odisha Millets Mission: An update at the end of IYM 2023
In the sixth and final post of the e-Symposium on ‘Carrying forward the promise of International Year of Millets’, Banerjee and Kundu discuss the extent to which policies implemented as a part of the ...
- Pritha Banerjee Shomita Kundu
- 23 October, 2023
- Notes from the Field
Making the most of Indian millets: Lessons from the International Year of Quinoa
In the fourth post of the e-Symposium on ‘Carrying forward the promise of International Year of Millets’, Pallavi Agrawal reflects on the success story of quinoa, and how the International Year of Qui...
- Pallavi Agrawal
- 20 October, 2023
- Perspectives