Tag Search: “food security”
Covid-19: Are we ready for the long haul? - Part I
As this may be the first of many future lockdowns to stamp out possible repeated outbreaks of Covid-19, policymakers must be prepared to provide relief to adversely affected individuals. With this in ...
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Abhinash Borah
Sabyasachi Das
Aparajita Dasgupta
Ashwini Deshpande
Kanika Mahajan
Bharat Ramaswami
Anuradha Saha
Anisha Sharma
02 April, 2020
- Perspectives
Food and agriculture during a pandemic: Managing the consequences
A critical fallout of the lockdown following the novel coronavirus pandemic has been a combination of confusion, uncertainty, and anxiety for farmers and consumers alike as to what lies in store in th...
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Sudha Narayanan
27 March, 2020
- Perspectives
Identifying the binding constraints of agricultural growth in Bihar
Out of the seven-year period set for doubling of farmers’ income by the government, four full agricultural years have already gone. This article identifies the binding constraints on farmers’ income o...
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Elumalai Kannan
Sanjib Pohit
16 March, 2020
- Articles
Economic Survey 2019-20: How does it seek to address challenges of farm sector?
This year’s Economic Survey, the flagship document of the Ministry of Finance, was recently tabled in the Parliament at a time of economic slowdown and rural distress in India. In this post, Sudha Nar...
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Sudha Narayanan
05 February, 2020
- Perspectives
Consent to nothing: Aadhaar-based payment systems in welfare
The process of seeding Aadhaar with bank accounts in order to link welfare schemes and cash transfers with Aadhaar payment systems, created chaos on the ground. In this note, Niklas Wagner and Sakina ...
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Sakina Dhorajiwala
Niklas Wagner
23 August, 2019
- Notes from the Field
IGC Panel Discussion: Financing growth and diversification of Bihar’s agriculture
In a panel discussion held at Patna, Bihar in December 2018, Anjan Mukherji (Jawaharlal Nehru University), Mekhala Krishnamurthy (Ashoka University), Avinash Kishore (International Food Policy Researc...
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Kumar Das
Manish Kumar Prasad
05 April, 2019
- Videos
Aadhaar, biometrics, and the PDS in Jharkhand
Aadhaar-based biometric authentication was made mandatory for obtaining rations under the Public Distribution System in Ranchi district in Jharkhand in August 2016. In this article, Nazar Khalid demon...
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Nazar Khalid
10 January, 2018
- Perspectives
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...
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Anders Kjelsrud
Rohini Somanathan
31 October, 2017
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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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