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India’s battle against hunger and malnutrition: The story so far -Pramit Bhattacharya

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The revival of PDS is a reality but that alone does not explain the decline in child malnutrition rates

Noting the wide disparities in living standards between different countries of the world, Nobel-winning macroeconomist R.E. Lucas commented in a widely cited research paper that one could not but help looking at such figures without thinking of them as possibilities.

"Is there some action a government of India could take that would lead the Indian economy to grow like Indonesia's or Egypt's?," Lucas asked in the paper. "If so, what, exactly? If not, what is it about the nature of India that makes it so? The consequences for human welfare involved in questions like these are simply staggering: Once one starts to think about them, it is hard to think about anything else."

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