-PTI As against India's real growth rate of 6.8 per cent in 2018, the IMF in its latest World Economic Outlook projected the country's growth rate at 6.1 per cent for 2019. WASHINGTON: India's growth is in barely positive territory, a top American think tank has said, noting that several key indicators are not just slowing down, but in absolute decline. In a study, two scholars from the Centre for Global Development (CGD)...
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We need to ask why India lags behind its neighbours in combating hunger, malnutrition -Harsh Mander
-The Indian Express Among all the countries included in the report, India has the highest rate of child wasting (which rose from the 2008-2012 level of 16.5 per cent to 20.8 per cent). Its child stunting rate (at 37.9 per cent) also remains shockingly high. The abiding disgrace of new India is that despite unprecedented quantities of wealth and the vulgar ostentation which has become customary in the gaudy glitter of...
More »India's TB report must be seen in light of the country's slide in Hunger Index -Shah Alam Khan
-The Indian Express With a virtually unregulated private health system, an increase in notification of TB patients could be heartening for the government. But for the public health system, it is bad news. Over the last month or so, we saw some important documentation on India’s public health. The Annual India Tuberculosis (TB) report was released by the government on September 26. India is now home to about a quarter of...
More »Famished in land of plenty -Devinder Sharma
-The Tribune It’s a paradox that food-surplus India is ranked 102nd on Global Hunger Index This strange paradox of plenty remains unexplained. At a time when grain silos are bursting at the seams, the 2019 Global Hunger Index (GHI) has ranked India 102nd among 117 countries, placing it in a category with ‘serious’ levels of hunger. As if this is not enough, the latest UNICEF report on the State of World’s Children...
More »'Alarmingly high' number of children malnourished worldwide: UNICEF report
-United Nations News Across the globe, at least one-in-three children under-five are malnourished and not developing properly, UNICEF revealed on Tuesday, in its most comprehensive report on children, food and nutrition in 20 years. “An alarmingly high number of children are suffering the consequences of poor diets and a food system that is failing them,” the UN children’s agency (UNICEF) warned. Around 200 million children under-five are either undernourished or overweight,...
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