Poverty–Food Security Nexus: Evidence from a Survey of Urban Slum Dwellers in Kolkata

Chandana Maitra () and D.S. Prasada Rao ()

World Development, 2015, vol. 72, issue C, 308-325

Abstract: We explore the poverty–food security nexus, using an experience-based indicator of food security constructed using a cross-section sample of slum households in Kolkata, within the framework of a simultaneous ordered probit model. We find, a poor household is also likely to be food insecure. Additionally education, gender, and household composition are major drivers of food insecurity among low-income urban households, with the policy implication that anti-poverty policies should be successful in eliminating household food insecurity, however, they need to be complemented with human capital investment and gender empowerment to be most effective.

Keywords: food security; poverty; simultaneous probit; experiential scales; urban slums (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2015.03.006

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