October 08, 2017 By: Ugo Gentilini (Senior Economist, World Bank), Harlod Alderman (Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI), and Ruslan Yemtsov (Lead Economist, World Bank) India’s state of Chhattisgarh faced a daunting challenge in the mid-2000s. About half of its public food distribution was leaked, meaning that it never reached the intended beneficiaries. By 2012, however, Chhattisgarh had nearly […]