The article discusses the 2013 Global Hunger Index (GHI) released by the International Food Policy Research Institute, the Welthungerhlife and Concern Worldwide. The index rates South Asia as the region with the highest 2013 GHI score instead of sub-Saharan Africa. The GHI also reported a ...
Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2023 is published jointly by Concern Worldwide and Welthungerhilfe. Know how the hunger index is calculated and the salient facts of the Global Hunger Index for UPSC 2024.
At 9th place, China is ranked well ahead of all South Asian nations, while Pakistan is at the 52nd place on the2010 Global Hunger Index, released by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in association with a German group Concern Worldwide and Welthungerhilfe. In India, th...
The Global Hunger Index measures hunger on a 100-point scale- 0 being the best score (no hunger) and 100 being the worst. The data used to calculate GHI scores come from published United Nations sources- Undernourishment data are provided by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and Ch...
A Global Hunger Index ranks Kenya at position 86 out of 117 countries, making it one of the nations whose citizens cannot afford proper meals. The report, which was released by a Germany-based Welt Hunger Hilfe, noted that Kenya has made some progress over the last 10 years ...
A global hunger index has been released showing about 20 percent of Indian children under 5 suffer from acute under-nutrition in the same week the International Monetary Fund projected India to be the world's fastest-growing economy, exposing stark contr
A consumption expenditure survey was last conducted in 2017-18 but its findings were never accepted by the govt.https://theprint.in/economy/old-data-changing-methodology-why-numbe...Last year, the NITI Aayog had released its Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), which said that about one in...
will fall on the high-end of the glycemic index. That’s because the energy within them is readily available for use by the body.More complex carbohydrates like whole grains and vegetablesrelease glucose slow and steady so they fall on the low end of the index. It’s because they have mo...
As per capita income rose over 50% to nearly $2500 in purchasing power, poverty in Pakistan decreased from about 34.5% to 17.2% and hunger went down with it during Musharraf years from 2000 to 2008, as reported byWorld Bankand IFPRI as lagging indicators. The global hunger index score, pu...
Energy consumption from the ICT industry has increased by nine percent each year, states a report released this month by the Shift Project, a French environmental think tank. Greenhouse gas emissions from the industry, meanwhile, make up 3.7 percent of the global total. ...