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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Disquiet on the hunger front -Aunindyo Chakravarty

Disquiet on the hunger front -Aunindyo Chakravarty

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published Published on Oct 21, 2019   modified Modified on Oct 21, 2019
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Children go hungry in India while granaries overflow and corporates get mega tax-breaks.

As a child, I never liked eating liver. I would gaze at my plate for ages, as I sat ruminating at the table, well after everyone else had finished their meals. “You are wasting your food,” my mother would scold me, “while children in Ethiopia are dying of hunger.” I am not alone. Almost all of us would have heard of this fable of hungry Ethiopian children.

Forty years later, the tables appear to have turned. Today, Ethiopia ranks above us in the Global Hunger Index. That’s mainly because Ethiopian children get better nutrition than children in our country. It’s not just Ethiopia, but several other poor African nations, such as Nigeria, Tanzania, Mozambique, Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Niger, all rank above us. And, so do our neighbours, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

The overall ranking, however, hides something alarming. To understand that, we need to unpack how the hunger index is calculated. It uses four broad measures, three out of which are directly related to nutrition levels. The first is the percentage of people in any country, who are ‘undernourished’, that is they do not get sufficient number of calories.

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