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Fiscal Challenges in Scaling Up Nutrition Interventions

Vol. 54, Issue No. 26-27, 29 Jun, 2019
Saumya Shrivastava, Nilachala Acharya, Chandrika Singh, Vani Sethi, Richa S Pandey, Rabi Parhi, Sourav Bhattacharjee, Abner Daniel, Preetu Mishra

Four states—Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, and Uttar Pradesh—together account for around 45% of stunted children in India. The existing literature makes a case for delivery of a host of specific interventions referred to as the direct nutrition interventions, along with sector-wise or systemic interventions, to bring about significant reductions in prevalence of stunting among children. An analysis of the delivery of DNIs in the said states shows that apart from the decline in fiscal priority for the DNIs during 2014–15 to 2017–18, there are also significant resource gaps for some of these interventions, which underscores the need for enhancing fiscal priority for these interventions.

 

Delivering Nutrition to Pregnant Women

Vol. 54, Issue No. 20, 18 May, 2019
Chandrika Singh, Saumya Shrivastava, Gaurav Singh, Nilachala Acharya

To reduce the burden of maternal undernutrition in India, select nutrition interventions are delivered to pregnant women at scale through the National Health Mission. But in Purnea, a district in Bihar, delivery is constrained by poor planning and budgeting, delayed fund flow, and shortage of infrastructure and human resources; and funds are underutilised.

Public Provisioning for Social Protection and Its Implications for Food Security

Vol. 51, Issue No. 18, 30 Apr, 2016
Praveen Jha, Nilachala Acharya

Persistent hunger and pervasive malnutrition are serious problems in the developing world. Recent literature suggests that well-designed public policies towards provisioning of social protection/security and strengthening of support measures to smallholder agriculture appear to be effective in reducing hunger and malnutrition. An investigation of the role of public provisioning on social protection in combating hunger using the recent evidence for 64 countries in the global South makes a strong case for a substantial push in public provisioning in favour of social protection, which, along with other policy measures, could play a vital role in strengthening national food security. Further, low levels of per capita income must not become an excuse for addressing the most basic human needs, as adequate fiscal space can be created even at low levels of income.

Budget Transparency and Participation

Vol. 49, Issue No. 34, 23 Aug, 2014
Anjali Garg, Nilachala Acharya, Ravi Duggal

In a formal sense, the Government of India provides considerable transparency in the budget process, but in a substantive sense, public participation is very limited. The Fourteenth Finance Commission has the opportunity to recommend true budget transparency, accountability and participation.

Securing Food for All

Vol. 48, Issue No. 04, 26 Jan, 2013
Nilachala Acharya, Praveen Jha

Despite many valid recommendations put forward by relevant committees as well as by independent researchers, the public distribution system continues to suffer from several inherent and systemic fl aws. Instead of addressing the problems encountered by the present system, policymakers are again attempting to resort to another version of targeted provisioning. By assessing important implications relating to various dimensions of the proposed National Food Security Bill 2011, this article focuses on the issues of fi nancing for ensuring reasonable food security for all in the country.

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