"Double Burden of Malnutrition": Reexamining the Coexistence of Undernutrition and Overweight Among Women in India.

India has one of the highest rates of underweight burden, with signs of rising obesity. Coexistence of underweight and overweight persons is symptomatic of the "double burden of malnutrition." The present study throws new light on the "double burden of malnutrition" among Indian women in the age group 22-49 years.

On hunger and child mortality in India.

Despite accelerated growth there is pervasive hunger, child undernutrition and mortality in India. Our analysis focuses on their determinants. Raising living standards alone will not reduce hunger and undernutrition.

National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, poverty and prices in rural India.

The objective of this analysis is mainly to construct an intuitive measure of the performance of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in India. The focus is on divergence between demand and supply at the district level. Some related issues addressed are: (i) whether the gap between demand and supply responds to poverty; and (ii) whether recent hikes in NREGS wages are inflationary.