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Alarming hunger or statistical artefact? -Sunny Jose and Md Zakaria Siddiqui

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published Published on Oct 18, 2021   modified Modified on Oct 18, 2021

-The Hindu

The low rank on the Global Hunger Index should push India to look again at its policies and interventions

This year’s Global Hunger Index (GHI) did not go down well with the government. This was expected given that it ranks India 101 out of 116 countries for which reliable and comparable data exist. To add insult to injury, the GHI puts India far below some of its neighbouring countries. Barring  last year’s rank of 94 out of 107 countries, India’s rank has been between 100 and 103 since 2017. This year’s slide in the rank assumes significance especially in the context of COVID-19.

Is India’s performance on hunger as dismal as denoted by the index or is it partly a statistical artefact? This question assumes immediacy, especially since the government has questioned the methodology and claimed that the ranking does not represent the ground reality. This calls for careful scrutiny of the methodology, especially of the GHI’s components.

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The Hindu, 18 October, 2021, https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/alarming-hunger-or-statistical-artefact/article37045072.ece?homepage=true


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