-PTI New Delhi: The risk of hunger and malnutrition could increase by 20 per cent due to climate change by 2050, endangering the lives of millions of people, a UN agency has warned. The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) says climate change is making disasters, such as floods and droughts, more frequent and intense, land and water more scarce and difficult to access, and increases in agricultural productivity even harder to...
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Understanding Leakages in the Public Distribution System -Jean Dreze and Reetika Khera
-Economic and Political Weekly &NBSp; This article attempts to resolve the puzzle of public distribution system leakages using the latest available data. Leakages remain high, but there is clear evidence of improvement in recent years, especially in states -- including Bihar -- that have undertaken bold PDS reforms. The main source of leakages is the "above the poverty line" quota, which is due to be phased out under the National Food Security...
More »The debt story less told -KP Prabhakaran Nair
-The Hindu Business Line &NBSp; Small and marginal farmers in rainfed regions are trapped in a losing battle with agriculture - and with life The lot of the poor Indian farmer keeps deteriorating with the passage of time. According to the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) data released on December 19, 2014, during the last decade, the bloated debt of Indian agricultural households increased almost 400 per cent Even the number of heavily...
More »New GDP Numbers Make Jaitley Happy -Lola Nayar
-Outlook 7.4 per cent growth is good news for the NDA's finance minister who will present his full budget two weeks from now. &NBSp; Indian economy is forecast to grow at an accelerated 7.4 percent in the fiscal year ending in March 2015 as against 6.9 percent in the previous fiscal, according to advance estimates released Monday. The high growth numbers, based on the new formula (with 2011-12 as the base year)...
More »NREGS in Rajasthan: Rationed Funds and Their Allocation across Villages -Himanshu, Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay, and MR Sharan
-Economic and Political Weekly &NBSp; The performance of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in Rajasthan was debated for its stupendous performance in the initial years of the scheme, but also for the relative sharp decline after 2010. Based on a large representative primary survey, this paper argues that the decline in performance of this scheme in Rajasthan is not entirely due to the lack of demand. Instead, the supply-driven top-down nature of...
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