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| Resurgent India goes to bed hungry | | | Washington | Oct 14
India may be the second fastest growing economy in the world but it still has a long way to go in eradicating hunger where it is ranked at 94th position well behind neighbouring China and Pakistan, a global report says.
According to the latest Global Hunger Index 2007 from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), although India has improved its score of 25.03 on the index compared to 33.73 in 1990, it is lagging behind China and Pakistan ranked at 47th and 88th positions, out of the total list 118 countries, respectively.
During 1990-2007 period, China bettered its score to 8.37 from 12.77 while Pakistan improved to 22.7 from 25.73.
The index is mainly based on proportion of undernourished in the population, prevalence of underweight in children under five years and those under-five mortality rate.
"One in seven people go to bed hungry every day. That's 854 million people worldwide. Hunger is one of the world's major problems and therefore one of its most important challenges," say the report's authors.
Besides, India's score on the progress indicator of the Global Hunger Index is 0.496. The country managed to reduce hunger by 8.7 since 1990 whereas the reduction target is 17.6 for the period from 1990-2015.
Libya is at the top of the list with a score of 0.87 this year whereas it had a score of 2.70 in 1990. |
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