How Consumer Price Subsidies affect Nutrition

World Development

Volumn 74, Issue , 2015, Pages 25-42

  Kaushal, Neeraj ^a   Muchomba, Felix M ^b  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumption; Nutrition; Poverty; Price subsidies

Indexed keywords

COMMODITY PRICE; CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; NUTRITION; POVERTY; PRICE DYNAMICS; RICE; RURAL AREA; SUBSIDY SYSTEM; WHEAT;

INDIA;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84929208934     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: 18735991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2015.04.006     Document Type: Article

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