This paper reviews recent evidence on food intake and nutrition in India. It attempts to make
sense of various puzzles, particularly the decline of average calorie intake during the last 25 …

Why does poverty persist? A critical, but so far ignored, part of the answer lies in the fact that
poverty is regularly created. Large numbers of people are esca** poverty, but large …

Viewing chronic poverty in terms of extended duration, severity and multidimensional
deprivation, this paper uses existing literature to draw attention to those people in India for …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of public expenditure on
economic growth and poverty alleviation in develo** countries like India. If poverty and …

With published data available from the 61st round (2004-05) of the National Sample Survey,
analysis over the period 1983-2005 shows unambiguously that in spite of higher overall …

We explore the poverty–food security nexus, using an experience-based indicator of food
security constructed using a cross-section sample of slum households in Kolkata, within the …

Despite becoming a global economic force, why does India win so few Olympic medals and
have so many people living in poverty? Why have opportunities not become available more …

Using three quinquennial rounds of consumption expenditure data over two decades (1993–
2012), this paper estimates the extent of money metric poverty and inequality in regions of …

India has witnessed high economics growth from the beginning of the new millennium. The
agriculture and allied sector also recorded the highest growth during 2003–4 to 2012–13 …

Examining panel data for more than 13,000 rural Indian households over the 12-year period
1993–94 to 2004–05 shows that two parallel and opposite flows regularly reconfigure the …