India's Other Growth Story
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) reported last week that hunger in India has grown over the last three years. IFPRI said India's hunger index score has worsened over the last three years from 23.7 to 23.9 to 24.1 and its ranking moved from 66 to 65 to 67 on a list of 84 nations....while Pakistan's hunger index score has improved over the same period reported since 2008 from 21.7 (2008) to 21.0 ( 2009 ) to 19.1 ( 2010 ) and its ranking has risen from 61 to 58 to 52. Here's an Indian blogger Abhinav who blogged last February about "Indian Growth Story Nobody Wants To Talk About": Today’s news on the death of fifty people from hunger at Balangir in Orissa is a grim reminder of the little growth story that India has had. It clearly indicates many negative facets of our system, bureaucracy and the public at large. As per the World Food Program, almost half of the world’s population who are deprived of food live in India. Another website of a ...