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Kathy Baylis
Kathy Baylis is a Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She joined the department after over a decade in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics at the University of Illinois where she remains adjunct faculty. She earned her Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics from the University of California at Berkeley in 2003, where she specialized in international agricultural policy and trade. In 2001-2002, Kathy was the staff economist in charge of agriculture for the Council of Economic Advisors in the White House, and in the mid-1990s, she worked as Executive Secretary of the National Farmers Union in Canada. Her research empirically evaluates agricultural, conservation, and trade policies and their effect on environmental and food security outcomes.
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The wide-ranging benefits of India’s Public Distribution System
India’s Public Distribution System (PDS) is the world’s largest food transfer programme and India’s most far-reaching social safety net, accounting for 60% of the country’s social assistance budget at one time. This article shows that the expansion of the PDS, following the National Food Security Act, prevented approximately 1.8 million children from being stunted, while also raising wage incomes and improving dietary diversity.
