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Food Consumption, Poverty, Hunger and Undernourishment

In: Household Behaviour, Prices, and Welfare

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  • Ranjan Ray

    (Monash University)

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InHunger this penultimate chapter of this volume, the discussion turns to povertyPoverty and undernourishmentUndernourishment in India. Besides providing evidence on the magnitudes and trend in the rates of poverty and undernourishment, this chapter describes and reports the principal findings from RayRay, R. (Dev Change 38(2):321–343, 2007) that examine the link between the two during the period from the late 1980s to the first part of the new millennium. Attention is focussed in this study on the mismatch in India between the estimates of poverty rates and of prevalence of undernourishment and of the contradictory trends between the two. Since a crucial element in the link between poverty and undernourishment is Food consumption and its effect on nutritional intake, we provide estimates of the two over this period. A result of much significance is the feature that there has been a decline in cereal consumption that is associated with a decline in calorie intakeCalorie Intake . This study also highlights the role of government welfare schemes such as the Public Distribution Scheme (PDS) in the government’s poverty eradication programme and shows that the importance of the PDS varies between regions and between female-headed households and others.

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  • Ranjan Ray, 2018. "Food Consumption, Poverty, Hunger and Undernourishment," Themes in Economics, in: Household Behaviour, Prices, and Welfare, chapter 0, pages 381-417, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:thechp:978-981-13-1930-3_12
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-1930-3_12
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