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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | The pandemic in data: Not only are India’s poor eating less, they are eating less nutritious food -Shoaib Daniyal

The pandemic in data: Not only are India’s poor eating less, they are eating less nutritious food -Shoaib Daniyal

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published Published on Jun 5, 2021   modified Modified on Jun 6, 2021

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Indians need more relief measures during the second Covid-19 wave.

Even before the pandemic hit, India was one of the world’s most malnourished countries. As could be expected for such a country with such poor development indicators, Covid-19 hit India’s poor hard. To compound the problem, the Indian government put in place what was the world’s harshest lockdown with little planning.

A new paper by economists Jean Dreze and Anmol Somanchi has now analysed survey data (collated here) to look at the impact of India’s first Covid-19 lockdown in 2020 on food deprivation. Their conclusion is grim: “the lockdown and the economic recession that followed led to a severe nutrition crisis”.

Income crash

The first impact of the lockdown was obviously on incomes and employment as India put in place the world’s harshest restrictions which shut down almost all economic activity.

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Scroll.in, 5 June, 2021, https://scroll.in/article/996600/the-pandemic-in-data-not-only-are-indias-poor-eating-less-they-are-eating-less-nutritious-food


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