Poverty-Hunger Divergence in India
Published By: Economic and Political Weekly | Published Date: January, 11 , 2014The usual explanations for the
divergence between calorie intake
and consumption expenditure
in India ignore the enormous
squeeze on food budgets arising
from dispossession (leading to
loss of access to common property
resources), rising migration
(involving a loss of access to
non-market food items) and the
forced turn to the private sector
for social sector services that
are more expensive than public
sector provision. It is the resulting
squeeze on food budgets that has
led to calorie intake declining
even as per capita consumption
expenditure has risen.
Author(s): Deepankar Basu, Debarshi Das | Posted on: Nov 28, 2014 | Views(1002)