Thursday, April 14, 2022
The time has come for India to raise its poverty line from the existing extreme poverty line of $1.90 per person per day to the lower-middle-income (LMI) poverty line of $3.20, a level some 68 percent higher.
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Wednesday, August 4, 2021
India has the world’s highest number of undernourished children and the largest school-feeding programme – the Mid-Day Meal (MDM) scheme – but limited evidence is available on the intergenerational impact of the programme. Based on data from the National...
Monday, April 6, 2020
BLOG: India’s huge population, its density, and very large numbers of poor present an extraordinary challenge for the country’s COVID-19 response, and the Indian government has imposed the largest lockdown in history: 1.3 billion people ordered...
Sunday, March 29, 2020
As more and more parts of the world declare lockdown measures in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, the damage to economies and livelihoods is rapidly escalating and giving rise to additional forms of distress during this healthcare crisis. The...
Saturday, March 28, 2020
The central government's announcement of a relief package yesterday is welcome, as have been the steps announced by various state governments, with Kerala leading the way. Without a relief package, a three-week lockdown could have led to the indirect...
Tuesday, December 10, 2019
BLOG: Using India’s Public Distribution System (PDS) as a case study, new research shows social transfers may reduce labour supply, but increase wages. (...) A common belief about social transfers is that they make their recipients lazy,...
Sunday, November 17, 2019
Record-keeping by hand is back at this “automated” fair price shop in Bangur, a dense Kolkata suburb, ever since its electronic point-of-sale (ePoS) machine broke down and had to be sent for repair.
Saturday, April 27, 2019
OPINION: The build-up to the 2019 elections inter alia has been characterised by competitive claims of formulae and formula to address poverty with rallying cries of surgical strikes, final assaults and “it is achievable”. In these schemes of things...
Friday, August 10, 2018
The Jharkhand government on Wednesday issued instructions to immediately end the direct benefit transfer scheme for food subsidy in the state’s Nagri block. It also announced that the earlier arrangement, wherein users of the public distribution system...
Thursday, October 5, 2017
The article flags issues of how gender inequality and stereotypes (decisions about cash tend to be made by men in a family) are crucial to ensure improved nutrition for the young child. How Cash transfer instead of food rations is a bad idea. Author:...