Page-3 of GS-II: Issues Relating to Poverty and Hunger

The State of the World’s Children report of UNICEF portrays a dismal picture of India. Elaborate

UNICEF has released its State of the World’s Children report for 2019. This is the first UNICEF report on child nutrition in the last 20 years. The report comes on the heels of the Global Hunger Index report. Findings of ..

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What is Global Hunger Index? List the parameters of the Global Hunger Index.

The global hunger index is an annual report jointly published by Ireland’s Concern Worldwide and Germany’s Welthungerhilfe. The index maps hunger to ensure that the world achieves “Zero Hunger by 2030” — one of the Sustainable Development Goals laid out ..

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What are the findings of the Global Hunger Index 2019?

The ranking of India in the Global Hunger Index 2019 has slipped to 102nd position from 95 in 2018. Findings of the Report The top rank was shared by Seventeen countries, including Belarus, Ukraine, Turkey, Cuba and Kuwait with GHI ..

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Analyze the performance of India in the Global Hunger Index 2019.

In the Global Hunger Index 2019, India was ranked in 102nd position with a score of 30.3. How India has fared over the last decade? India with a score of 38.8 was in the “alarming” category in 2000. Since then, ..

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Why there are fears that state revenue will fall behind the estimates?

It has been feared that the tax revenues for state governments are likely to fall well short of their budget estimates for 2019-20. State Revenue Sources Own tax revenues and devolution of central taxes are the two major components of ..

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There is a growing divergence in the relationship between poverty and hunger in India. The shrinking of social expenditure by the government is forcing the poor to spend more on Non- Food essential items squeezing their food budget. Elucidate

Poverty and Hunger are the twin challenges for India in meeting the targets set under the sustainable development goals. India which is a welfare state is mandated under the directive principles of the state policy to provide for the well ..

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