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Dietary Diversity during COVID-19 in India

Vol. 57, Issue No. 39, 24 Sep, 2022
Aashi Gupta, Nidhi Kaicker

The article reports the findings on the changing dietary patterns of Indian households during COVID-19, based on an analysis of the Consumer Pyramids Household Survey. The impact of the pandemic on diet composition was most severe for the poor and the deprived, who substituted inferior cereals for expensive cereals and spent lower amounts on nourishing foods such as fruits and vegetables.

Food Consumption Expenditures and the COVID-19 Pandemic in India

Vol. 57, Issue No. 32, 06 Aug, 2022
Nidhi Kaicker, Aashi Gupta, Raghav Gaiha

The COVID-19 pandemic led to lockdowns and disruptions in food supply chains and emerged as both a demand- and a supply-side shock. Based on the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy– Consumer Pyramids Household Survey monthly expenditure data for the period from January 2019 to August 2021, changes in food expenditure shares in India as a result of the pandemic across income and socio-economic and demographic groups are examined. The pandemic-induced lockdowns resulted in a sharp increase in the share of food in the total expenditure across rural and urban India for all income groups and castes and religions, but the intensity of shifts varied.

Wholesale and Retail Food Prices in Maharashtra during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Vol. 56, Issue No. 40, 02 Oct, 2021
Nidhi Kaicker, Raghav Gaiha, Radhika Aggarwal

The analysis builds on the extant literature in three ways: it covers the longest period of the lockdown; offers robust comparisons of means and variances of food commodities’ prices and the price wedge between them in different cities/market centres in Maharashtra during the lockdown relative to the pre-pandemic period; and finally gives a distillation of time-series analysis of co-movements of wholesale and retail prices between pairs of centre/wholesale and retail prices, mutual dependence of wholesale and retail prices, taking their lags into account, and their time-varying volatility.

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