Inequality in Food Expenditure in India and the Contributing Factors

Purchase trends of processed foods and beverages in urban India

“…Further research is needed to identify the drivers of state-specific trends because one-size-fits-all national picture is unlikely to be sufficiently informative for nutrition-related programming and policymaking in India (Cavatorta et al, 2015). Another fruitful avenue would be to analyse how the trends and levels of processed food purchases differ across socio-economic classes and other demographic characteristics since wealthier people tend to allocate their food expenditure differently from poorer people (Deaton and Drèze, 2009; Borkotoky and Unisa, 2018). Finally, it is also important to investigate the purchase trends among sub-populations of regular consumers of packaged and processed foods, their socio-demographic characteristics and possible linkages to dietary and health outcomes.…”

Assessing Food Poverty, Vulnerability and Food Consumption Inequality in the Context of COVID-19: A Case of Bangladesh

“…This study found that, idiosyncratic shocks have higher impact on relatively well-off household's vulnerability and covariate shocks have higher impact on poorer and less educated household's vulnerability. Borkotoky and Unisa ( 2018 ) while using Theil Decomposition and Gini Decomposition technique, assessed the level of inequality in food expenditure in India. This study further utilized Oaxaca Blinder Decomposition (Oaxaca 1973 ; Blinder 1973 ) method, to assess the factors contributing to inequality in food consumption and found that occupation type and household size significantly contributed towards this.…”