Page-2 of GS-I: Poverty and Developmental Issues

Enumerate the reasons of poverty among the third world countries, also mention the key ideas suggested in the Brandt report of 1980 to help them.

August 28, 2023

Third world countries refer to those countries, whose economic, social, political development is not at par with the rest of the contemporary world. Reasons of poverty: Education – Education create class divide, resource divide and effective utilisation of those resources ..

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India produces more than it needs still performs poorly in Global Hunger Index. Discuss the reasons behind this paradox and measures to curb this problem.

August 12, 2023

Global Hunger Index 2021 has ranked India 101 out of 116 countries revealing an acute case of hunger. The problem of hunger does not lie in food production as: India’s wheat and rice production is consistently increasing for the last ..

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India faces a paradox of being one of the largest producers of agricultural products on one hand and performing poorly in hunger index on the other hand. Discuss, also suggest ways to address this issue.

August 7, 2023

Hunger is the distress that arises from insufficient calorie intake. The Paradox: After Independence, India was still a net importer of grains, as our agriculture sector was not developed. We were dependent on PL480 contract with USA where ships filled ..

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Discuss the role of wage employment in poverty alleviation and how is MGNREGA different from it.

August 7, 2023

The Indian state is a welfare state as enjoined in the Directive Principles of State Policy. Thus, it is the duty of state to alleviate poverty, which stands at 21% as per Suresh Tendulkar committee report. While Universal Basic Income ..

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There is a need to shift focus from food security to nutritional security in India, comment. Also, suggest a framework to achieve nutritional self-reliance.

August 2, 2023

Hunger is the distress that arises from insufficient calorie intake. Thus, early policymakers focus was ensuring adequate calorie consumption via food security. Hence, India adopted the PDS/T-PDS/I-PDS, and recently the National Food Security Act, 2013. Challenges: While, food security has ..

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India continues to perform poor in global hunger index despite adequate food stocks and statutory laws to ensure food security. Analyze and provide solutions to deal with this problem.

July 25, 2023

Recently India has ranked on 107th position in Global Hunger Index despite overflowing FCI godowns and food wastage. Magnitude of Problem of hunger in India: Burden of malnutrition. High rate of stunting among children. Approximately 50% women are anaemic. Safeguards ..

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