-Livemint.com Its unclear methodology and bias correctives offer cause for doubt that our low rank reflects reality An index by the name Global Hunger Index (GHI) released its 2021 edition on Friday. Even as it showed India improving its absolute score, its rank slipped because others did better on the four parameters that go into the index, presumably. In general, these global rankings are problematic for several reasons. One, they take no account...
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Has hunger increased in India? -Roshan Kishore
-Hindustan Times India’s fall in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2021 rankings has been used by some to argue there has been a worsening of hunger in the country. The Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2021 rankings were released last week. India was placed at 101st rank among 116 nations covered in the report. India was ranked 94th out of 107 countries in the 2020 GHI rankings. India’s fall in the rankings has...
More »Alarming hunger or statistical artefact? -Sunny Jose and Md Zakaria Siddiqui
-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...
More »Global Hunger Index: Only 3.9% children malnourished, says government
-The Hindu Govt says data in Global Hunger Index inflated The value of a key indicator used in the Global Hunger Index is ‘inflated’ as there are only 3.9% anganwadi children found to be undernourished, the Government said on Sunday. “The real time data of beneficiaries registered on the Anganwadi platform include 7.79 crore children aged between 6 months to 6 years as per real-time Poshan Tracker data [as on 16-10-2021]. Corresponding number...
More »Global Hunger Index not based on an opinion poll, says German non-profit Welthungerhilfe -Jagriti Chandra
-The Hindu Government has misunderstood ‘undernourishment’, says Welthungerhilfe, which co-published the Global Hunger Index. German non-profit Welthungerhilfe (WHH) that co-published the Global Hunger Index (GHI) this year rubbished the Government's allegation on Saturday that its ranking of India as among the 16 worst countries was based on an opinion poll. It also pointed out that the Government was wrong to confuse ‘undernourishment’ with “undernutrition”. Following the launch of the GHI on Thursday which...
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