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Sustainable Development

India less committed to reducing hunger than Nepal or Bangladesh

by The Daily Eye Team August 29 2014, 8:39 am Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 48 secs

ndia ranked 19th among 45 developing countries assessed by UK-based organization India has made quite some progress in countering hunger and under-nutrition in the past two years but Nepal and Bangladesh have done better and have shown serious commitment through political will, says the Hunger and Nutrition Commitment Index (HANCI) report, 2013. The annual HANCI report, prepared by non-profit Institute of Development Studies and International Food Policy Research Institute funded by government of UK and Ireland, has ranked India 19th among the 45 developing countries it has evaluated.

The report says that India’s commitment to alleviation of hunger and under-nutrition is far less than that of some of the world’s most poor countries. Guatemala, Peru, Malawi, Brazil, Madagascar, Nepal and Tanzania have been rated as highly committed; Burundi and Liberia have made progress on action to reduce chronic hunger and undernutrition. Some of the bottom of the index countries include Angola, Myanamar, Afghanistan, Sudan and Guinea Bissau.

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