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Measuring hunger across States
1 year, 3 months ago

Measuring hunger across States

The Hindu  

Despite being a major food producer with extensive food security schemes and the largest public distribution system in the world, India still grapples with significant levels of food insecurity, hunger, and child malnutrition. The GHI provides a composite measurement and tracks undernourishment and hunger at the national level across three dimensions: calorie undernourishment, child malnutrition, and under-five mortality. The State …

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What the debate on NSS population counts missed out
1 year, 4 months ago

What the debate on NSS population counts missed out

Live Mint  

One of independent India’s early achievements was to set up a large-scale household survey system. An under-estimation of our urban population in NSS surveys has consistently figured in NSC meetings ever since it was set up, official records show. “The listing of households done by the census authorities and that, if any, done subsequently by local authorities is not available …

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Poverty in India: Decline over the decade
2 years, 6 months ago

Poverty in India: Decline over the decade

Live Mint  

Poverty is a much-debated issue. That poverty line is typically defined as a minimum basket of goods and services required for subsistence, converted into a nominal consumption expenditure figure, using appropriate prices. In other words, one uses monthly per capita consumption expenditure to define poverty line. If growth enabled those just below the poverty line to move above, it is …

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‘A corporate-communal nexus has emerged’: Sitaram Yechury
3 years, 3 months ago

‘A corporate-communal nexus has emerged’: Sitaram Yechury

The Hindu  

The far-reaching economic reforms unleashed in 1991 had a differential impact on different sections of the Indian population. India’s 100 billionaires have seen their fortunes increase by Rs.12,97,822 crore since March 2020, enough to give every one of the 138 million poorest Indian people a cheque for Rs.94,045 each. The deep economic recession we are undergoing today is part of …

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