Understanding the costs of the food corporation of India
Madhura Swaminathan
Economic and Political Weekly 34(52): A121-A132
1999
ISSN/ISBN: 0012-9976 Document Number: 527572
The paper examines the volume of food subsidy over the last 30 years in India; then using data for the 1990s from the accounts of the Food Corporation of India (FCI), the paper examines the components of foodgrain subsidy, the relative contribution of different components to total costs, and the growth in different components during the current decade. Finally the paper compares the efficiency of the FCI with that of private trade.
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