01116nam a22001457a 4500999001900000008004100019100005100060245004600111260003400157300003400191520059500225773003400820942000700854952010900861  c533730d533730260612b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aBalakrishnan, Pulapre  and  Raj, Aman  961234  aThe Thali index of the standard of living  aEconomic & Political Weekly    a61(20), May 16, 2026: p.45-50  aThe use of a food consumption-based index of the standard of living is proposed, positing the consumption of two thali meals a day by an individual as the minimum acceptable level. Using such an index, we estimate the share of the food-deprived population using the NSS’s Household Consumption Expenditure Survey for 2023–24. An innovation in our study is the use of actual expenditure on food as the relevant data for measuring food consumption possibility, and thus the standard of living. – Reproduced 

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