IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ids/ijicbm/v23y2021i1p111-137.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Food security through targeted public distribution system: myth or reality? Insight from Barpeta district, Assam

Author

Listed:
  • Shrabanti Maity

Abstract

This paper investigates the role of the public distribution system as an instrument to ensure food security in the marginal area of India like Barpeta district, Assam involving 'char' areas and nearby areas other than 'char'. The study used calorie gain and fiscal transfer methods to estimate the calorie gain and subsidy transfer through the public district system and its indirect benefits as a window for the poor to improve food security. Self-developed food security index is also used to identify the food security status of the study area. The robustness of the results was checked based on propensity score matching (PSM) technique. The study established that the public distribution system although ensures calorie and income gain but is less effective in ensuring food security and removing under-nourishment in the study area in its present structure.

Suggested Citation

  • Shrabanti Maity, 2021. "Food security through targeted public distribution system: myth or reality? Insight from Barpeta district, Assam," International Journal of Indian Culture and Business Management, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 23(1), pages 111-137.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijicbm:v:23:y:2021:i:1:p:111-137
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=115406
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ids:ijicbm:v:23:y:2021:i:1:p:111-137. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sarah Parker (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=235 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.