In the context of the current public policy focus on rising food prices and their implications for food security, this paper examines two major issues raised : (i) Universalization of the public distribution system; and (ii) its implications for procurement and buffer-stocks. This paper is based...

This study examines the economic profiles of morbidity by disease in Kerala and all- India by estimating Engel elasticities for diseases and classifying them as between those associated with affluence and deprivation. Morbidity rates, in general, are more for the rich than for the poor. There...