Rahman Andaleeb
Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS), Bangalore, India.
Food Policy. 2016 Aug;63:73-86. doi: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2016.07.003.
This article provides evidence on the role of consumer food subsidies in improving nutritional intake and diet quality by evaluating the expansion of the government food assistance program coverage in the hunger prone state of Odisha in India. In 8 districts of Odisha, popularly known as the Kalahandi-Balangir-Koraput (KBK) region which is notable for extreme poverty and starvation deaths, the government did away with the targeted food assistance program in 2008 and made the scheme universal. Using a Difference-in-Difference methodology over two repeated cross sectional household surveys, this article finds that the shift from targeted to a universal food security program in the KBK region of Odisha has led to an improvement in the household nutritional intake and diet quality. Further examination suggests that proportion of households consuming below the recommended dietary allowance of calorie, fats and protein has declined significantly in this region post the intervention.
本文通过评估印度奥里萨邦饥饿频发地区政府粮食援助计划覆盖范围的扩大情况，提供了关于消费者粮食补贴在改善营养摄入和饮食质量方面作用的证据。在奥里萨邦的8个区，即俗称的卡拉汉迪-巴朗吉尔-科拉普特（KBK）地区，该地区以极端贫困和饥饿死亡而闻名，政府在2008年取消了有针对性的粮食援助计划，并使该计划普及化。通过对两次重复的横断面家庭调查采用双重差分法，本文发现奥里萨邦KBK地区从有针对性的粮食安全计划向普及型粮食安全计划的转变，导致了家庭营养摄入和饮食质量的改善。进一步的调查表明，在干预后，该地区卡路里、脂肪和蛋白质摄入量低于推荐膳食摄入量的家庭比例显著下降。
