Tag Search: “food security”
Price risk and poverty
There is an ongoing policy debate in India on whether grain entitlements under PDS should be converted into cash transfers. This column shows that in the face of high price variability, in-kind trans...
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Lucie Gadenne
Sam Norris
Monica Singhal
Sandip Sukhtankar
15 May, 2017
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The Effects of Food Policy on Cropping Patterns and Income Distribution in Rural Bihar
Bihar is unusual among the Indian states in the extent to which it remains a rural economy; government food policy can have profound effects on the level and distribution of income in Bihar. The objec...
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Rajnish Kumar
Rohini Somanathan
15 March, 2017
- IGC Research on India
Terms of trade shocks and monetary policy in India
Understanding monetary policy design in emerging markets and developing economies is a growing area of research. One aspect that is missing is how distortions in the agricultural sector translate into...
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Chetan Ghate
Sargam Gupta
Debdulal Mallick
31 December, 2016
- IGC Research on India
Are grain procurement shocks inflationary?
Central banks in emerging markets grapple with understanding the inflationary impact of grain procurement shocks because the precise link between the agriculture sector and the rest of the economy may...
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Chetan Ghate
Sargam Gupta
Debdulal Mallick
17 October, 2016
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Does good governance reduce foodgrain diversion in PDS?
In 2011-12, various states undertook measures to curb leakages of foodgrains from the Public Distribution System. Some of the pioneer states also implemented the National Food Security Act - a rights-...
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Sohini Paul
24 July, 2016
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Indian agriculture: How to feed more people with fewer resources
While agriculture in India has achieved grain self-sufficiency, it has become cereal-centric, regionally-biased and resource-intensive. In this article, Swain, Price and Sharma discuss the rising res...
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Gareth Price
Ira Sharma
Ashwini K. Swain
05 July, 2016
- Perspectives
Food Security Act: How are India's poorest states faring?
The National Food Security Act was passed in 2013. This column reports findings from a recent survey on the status of the Act in six of India’s poorest states. Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and...
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Jean Drèze
Prankur Gupta
Reetika Khera
Isabel Pimenta
29 June, 2016
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Local political elite capture and BPL card allocation
There is significant anecdotal evidence for the fact that local political connections at the grassroots level is an important channel through which leakages take place in welfare schemes in India such...
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Sitakanta Panda
08 April, 2016
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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...
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Asad Islam
Chandana Maitra
Debayan Pakrashi
Russell Smyth
28 September, 2015
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Using science to improve Indian agriculture
Five years ago, the Indian government imposed a ‘temporary’ moratorium on the commercial release of Bt brinjal – a genetically modified crop - even after it had passed through the due regulatory proc...
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Robert S. Zeigler
26 June, 2015
- Perspectives
The Chhattisgarh experience and the National Food Security Act
Many of the reforms introduced under the National Food Security Act are modeled on PDS reforms implemented in Chhattisgarh. These reforms are widely believed to be responsible for the state’s success...
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Prasad Krishnamurthy
Vikram Pathania
Sharad Tandon
20 April, 2015
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Workfare as an effective way to fight poverty: The case of India's MNREGA
The fundamental appeal of a workfare programme, vis-à-vis a welfare programme, is that it helps in targeting the beneficiaries. This column assesses the welfare impact of MNREGA on poor rural househo...
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Shamika Ravi
11 December, 2014
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