Social Safety Nets for Food and Nutritional Security in India

Sudha Narayanan

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Abstract: This paper brings together existing literature on the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNRGEA) and the Public Distribution System (PDS) in India, offering a narrative review of the evidence on impacts on food security, health and nutrition of beneficiaries. The evidence that exists suggests largely positive impacts indicating a clear potential to make these programs more nutrition sensitive not just by incorporating elements that would explicitly address nutritional concerns but also by directing specific attention to innovations that strengthen critical complementarities and synergies that exist between the two programs.

Keywords: social safety nets; India; complementarity and synergies; food and nutrition security; health; undernutrition; MGNRGEA; PDS; food security; NFSA (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-01
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Working Paper: Social Safety Nets for Food and Nutritional Security in India (2016)
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