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Looking for Answers to the Food Security Problem: India under Current Compulsions

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  • Nilabja Ghosh
  • Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis

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Food insecurity at the household level has become unacceptable in India where the economy is growing at high rates and food sufficiency is already achieved at the macro-level. Food security has always been an important issue in the Indian political economy and was addressed by numerous poverty-eradication and rural development programmes that emerged and evolved with time. In recent times of liberalization, the programmes are intended to be more targeted and integrated with other social objectives through innovative designing.

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  • Nilabja Ghosh & Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis, 2006. "Looking for Answers to the Food Security Problem: India under Current Compulsions," WIDER Working Paper Series RP2006-123, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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