The article analyses the farm laws struggle in India which, at the time of writing (September
2021), has lasted more than a year. It aims to explain its unusually broad support base and …

India's national lockdown in 2020, in response to the Covid-19 crisis, was one of the
harshest in the world. Multiple household surveys indicate that the lockdown and the …

The One Nation One Ration Card (ONORC) scheme started in India in 2019—with all states
on board since mid-2022—enabling interstate portability of the public distribution system …

The role of Aadhaar in reducing corruption in the PDS has been highly controversial. In a
recent I4I article, Muralidharan et al. summarised the insights of their study of Aadhaar …

Despite the presence of various social safety net programs, Indian households are not
resilient to daily risks and exogenous shocks. To understand the incommensurate success …

The second surge of COVID-19 had a large mortality impact in India. However, there are few
reliable estimates of the magnitude of this impact for India's poorer states. This note presents …

Purpose The objective of this paper was twofold-revisiting the in-kind public distribution
system (PDS)–India's flagship food security intervention and seeking beneficiary …

The two waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in India have resulted in widespread food
insecurity and hunger in the country as a result of the burden of health expenditure and …

The paper examined the impact of Minimum Support Price (MSP) in adoption of agricultural
technology and increasing production and buffer stocks of cereals, pulses and oilseeds in …

'Leakages' from the Public Distribution System–that is, grain released by the Food
Corporation of India that fails to reach consumers–stood at around 42% in 2011-12 at an all …