Food prices and the efficiency of public intervention: the case of the public distribution system in India

Ramaswami, Bharat; Balakrishnan, Pulapre

doi:10.1016/s0306-9192(02)00047-7

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“…Agricultural markets in India have been studied extensively. The research has mainly focused on the effect of international trade liberalization (e.g., Athukorala and Jayasuriya, 2003; Parikh et al, 1997; Sawhney, 2005; Storm, 1997), the impact of public policy interventions (e.g., Banerji and Meenakski, 2004; Ramaswami and Balakrishnan, 2002; Umali‐Deininger and Deininger, 2001), and the existence of market integration (Palaskas and Harriss‐White, 1996). Little specific information is available about the value chain for nonstaple crops.…”

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Quality control in nonstaple food markets: evidence from India

Fafchamps

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Minten³

2008

Agricultural Economics

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Using original survey data collected on growers, traders, processors, markets, and village communities, we will compare the situation in four states: Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Orissa. We examine the way that information about crop attributes is conveyed (or not) along the value chain. We find that little information circulates about unobservable crop characteristics. Growers receive a price premium when they dry, grade, and pack their produce, but we find no evidence that information about crop salubrity or agricultural practices circulates through the value chain or that growers are encouraged to follow specific agricultural practices for quality purposes. Market infrastructure is deficient regarding sanitation, with few public toilets, inadequate drainage, and no coordinated pest control. Copyright (c)2008 International Association of Agricultural Economists.

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Quality control in nonstaple food markets: evidence from India

Fafchamps

Hill

Minten³

2008

Agricultural Economics

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“…The need for reduction in the national public expenditure, a direct prescription of the Structural Adjustment Programme, had visible consequences on the management of the PDS. Severe inefficiencies were substantiated in the point, made by World Bank economists, that the system enabled "meagre transfer at exorbitant cost" (Radhakrishna and Subbarao 1997:7) due to its universal nature, while fiscal expenditures were reported to yield long-term distortions on private markets ultimately hurting the poor (Ramaswami and Balakrishnan 2002). Such concerns became the root of the new targeted PDS, which converted universal provision into reservation of subsidy to below-poverty-line (BPL) households.…”

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Biometric Infrastructures and the Indian Public Distribution System

Masiero¹

2020

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“…To the best of our knowledge, the available literature only sites the performance of the PDS and other food security programmes in terms of food sufficiency, nutrient adequacy, cultural acceptability, safety, certainty and stability (Coates, 2013). It particularly measures income transfer to the poor Ramaswami, 2010, 2011;Ramaswami, 2002), targeting errors (Ahluwalia, 1993;Khera, 2011;Mane, 2006;Ramaswami, 2002), price stabilizations effect (Cummings et al, 2006), pilferage control (Ahluwalia, 1993;Khera, 2011;Sekhriz, 2011, 2012;Ramaswami and Balakrishnan, 2002), calorie intake and nutrition status , implications on fiscal performance (Ramaswami and Balakrishnan, 2002), waste reduction (Parfitt et al, 2010), hunger status (Kattumuri, 2011), etc. This kind of performance measures may not be appropriate for the supply chain.…”

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Structural mapping of public distribution system using multi-agent systems

Ambekar

Kapoor

Mehta

2015

Business Process Management Journal

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a framework for mapping the Indian Public Distribution System (PDS) using multi-agent system (MAS). The entire PDS supply chain from purchase to the distribution is mapped in detail by integrating stages of PDS supply chain. Design/methodology/approach – Literature related to PDS, food grain supply chain (FGSC) and MAS is reviewed and critically assessed. Based on this a framework is proposed which will help in improving functioning of PDS. Findings – The PDS has many shortcomings arising from its complex structure and practices which are used to implement it. The authors propose an MAS to model it in which each entity will be modelled as an agent. The authors propose two stages of supply chain. First stage models the processes from procurement to storage of food grain and second stage model the distribution process. Practical implications – This paper will be of interest to the policy makers and decision makers involved in the PDS by providing the shortfalls in the system and also suggesting a method to model the PDS based on practices of food supply chains. Originality/value – This paper provides the decision makers in the PDS, a framework to model and assess the entire supply chain. This will help them in effective implementation of the PDS and also improve in the areas of concerns which are pointed the study.

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Food prices and the efficiency of public intervention: the case of the public distribution system in India

Cited by 37 publications

References 7 publications

Quality control in nonstaple food markets: evidence from India

Quality control in nonstaple food markets: evidence from India

Biometric Infrastructures and the Indian Public Distribution System

Structural mapping of public distribution system using multi-agent systems

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