There has been a major expansion of social security programs in India during the last 15
years or so, along with wider recognition of economic and social rights. This paper …

Abstract The Indian state of Odisha has made significant strides to address health and
nutrition in the last 25 years. We used public data, policy and program documents, published …

The targeted public distribution system (TPDS) of India—world's largest food safety-net
program—has a reputation for poor targeting, rampant corruption and low impact. Five states …

This article provides evidence on the role of consumer food subsidies in improving
nutritional intake and diet quality by evaluating the expansion of the government food …

The targeted public distribution system (TPDS) is the largest safety net program in India, in
terms of both government expenditures and number of beneficiary households. 1 The …

This paper starts by making the case for why a data revolution is needed, highlighting the
parlous case of data globally, nationally and locally, focusing on social data, and stating why …

Introduction Childhood stunting has declined in India between 2006 and 2016, but not
uniformly across all states. Little is known about what helped some states accelerate …

Abstract The Indian Public Distribution System is one of the world's largest food security
programs and provides a monthly quota of cereals at discounted prices to poor households …

We investigate whether food price subsidies affect household nutrition using a dramatic
expansion of the availability of subsidized rice in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh in the early …

Global success case analyses have identified factors supporting reductions in stunting
across countries; less is known about successes at the subnational levels. We studied four …