With a rising financial system and growing clout on the world stage, India is a hit story amongst creating nations, however persistently excessive poverty and malnutrition charges threaten to go away hundreds of thousands of lives behind. A new book authored by researchers on the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition (TCI) argues that India must rethink its social security nets with a view to handle these points and understand its full potential.

In The Future of India’s Social Safety Nets: Focus, Form, and Scope, Research Associate Andaleeb Rahman and Director Prabhu Pingali discover India’s array of social welfare applications and contend that the nation ought to substitute its piecemeal efforts with a systemic method geared toward reaching a resilience that lifts households out of poverty and retains others from falling into hardship.

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