Suryanarayana, M. H.; Silva, Dimitri - In: Journal of Human Development and Capabilities 8 (2007) 1, pp. 89-107
This paper seeks to verify the hypothesis that the set of food insecure is larger than the set of poor in India. Any attempt to reform safety nets like a food distribution programme by targeting it only to the latter would penalize those who are non-poor but food insecure. Towards this end, the...