public food subsidy programme, on consumption poverty, vulnerability and undernutrition in India drawing, on the large … food for work programmes on poverty, undernutrition (e.g. protein) and vulnerability in 1993 and 2004. Indeed, poverty and … undernutrition were significantly higher for households with access to PDS than for those without, although PDS had significant …

similar improvements in the nutritional situation of the people and especially of children. We find that undernutrition … status. Our conclusion that non-monetary factors matter to reduce undernutrition, and, therefore, monetary poverty reduction … is not a sufficient condition, is further underlined by a prediction of future undernutrition rates based on regressions …