TY  - BOOK
AU  - Narayanan, Sudha.
AU  -  Christopher, Anita
AU  -  Raghunathan, Kalyani. 
TI  - Beyond the Consumer Food Price Index Measuring the Cost of a Healthy Diet in India 
SN  - 00129976
PB  - Economic and Political Weekly
KW  -  Cost of a Healthy Diet
KW  -  Health and Nutrition
KW  -  Nutritional Challenges
KW  - Consumer Food Price Index
N2  - In this paper, we make a case for routinely computing the CoHD alongside the CPI-F.  We show that, though correlated with the consumer price index for food, they do not always move in the same direction and that the CPI-F is a poor predictor of CoHD. Thus, attempts to draw inferences on the health and nutritional implications of food inflation using the CPI-F can lead to erroneous conclusions. We propose that the CoHD be used as a barometer for barriers faced in attaining healthy diverse diets across time as well as space and as an input into policy decisions, such as costing social protection programmes
UR  - https://www.epw.in/journal/2024/32/special-articles/beyond-consumer-food-price-index.html
ER  -