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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Global Hunger Index: Welcome to India, world's hottest economy where 39% kids are stunted -Dinesh Unnikrishnan

Global Hunger Index: Welcome to India, world's hottest economy where 39% kids are stunted -Dinesh Unnikrishnan

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published Published on Oct 13, 2016   modified Modified on Oct 13, 2016
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a jibe at India's perennially hostile neighbour Pakistan at his Kozhikode speech, just a few days ahead of the 'surgical attacks' conducted by the Indian army's special forces at LoC. The Prime Minister said India is ready for a war with Pakistan, but a war on poverty, unemployment and malnutrition. Modi's 'war cry' resonated well in Pakistani media, too. It seems we, Indians, are indeed at war with Pakistan on poverty and malnutrition.

As this Mint report notes, among Asian countries, India and Pakistan are at the bottom of the rankings in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) report released by US-based International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).

In the 2016 rankings of 118 countries, India is ranked 97 and Pakistan 107. All other Asian neighbours are doing relatively better -- China (29), Nepal (72), Myanmar (75), Sri Lanka (84) and Bangladesh (90), the report showed, adding India’s GHI score of 28.5 is worse than the developing country average score of 21.3.

Brazil and Argentina have a GHI score of less than 5 and are ranked the best among developing nations, while countries like Chad and Central African Republic come at the bottom with a score of 44.3 and 46.1, respectively, the report says.

GHI is a multidimensional statistical tool used to describe the state of countries' hunger situation. Updated once a year, it gauges the progress and failures in the global fight against hunger.

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FirstPost.com, 12 October, 2016, http://www.firstpost.com/business/global-hunger-index-welcome-to-india-worlds-fastest-growing-economy-where-39-children-are-stunted-3046864.html


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