Food security in Chhattisgarh: The challenges of implementing the PDS
LSE’s Ruth Kattumuri argues that Chhattisgarh’s Food Security Act refers to most issues in broad terms and is short on specifics. This article first appeared in the Indian Express. Targeting and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Women and development in India: Slow progress in West Bengal
In this special three-part series, the Prime Minister’s Rural Development Fellows report from the field about what development means to women in some of the most remote parts of India. What is the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Women and development in India: Empowering women in Jharkhand
In conversation with Prime Minister’s Rural Development Fellow Belmati Jonko, Bahrin Bhuyinya, a resident of the Khunti district in Jharkhand, shares her story. While she feels that the village has...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cash versus in-kind transfers: What do beneficiaries really want?
Maitreesh Ghatak, Chinmaya Kumar, and Sandip Mitra examine the factors that determine whether beneficiaries prefer receiving in-kind or cash transfers. In the last few decades, there has been growing...
View ArticleClik here to view.
UID/Aadhar and the PDS: What new technologies mean for India’s food security...
Silvia Masiero examines how the introduction of UID/Aadhar will enable the substitution of India’s Public Distribution System with a market-regulated network, and what that means for food security. The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Does computerisation reduce PDS leakage? Lessons from Karnataka
Silvia Masiero discusses recent research into how computerisation can detect and prevent leakage from the Public Distribution System, which is used to dispense rations allocated under the National Food...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Reviving the informal sector from the throes of demonetisation
While recent measures announced by the government indicate some awareness of the hardships inflicted on the informal sector by the note ban, more needs to be done. In this article, Kaushik...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“The private sector is much more likely to misuse Aadhar than the...
In May 2018, LSE South Asia Centre hosted a workshop where Abhijit Banerjee, the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at MIT, discussed why Indian democracy doesn’t to deliver more....
View Article