Global Hunger Index Scores and Rankings For Selected Countries
Among other South Asian nations, India's GHI score improved to 23.7 in 2011 to where it was in three years earlier in 2008 after worsening from 23.7 (2008) to 23.9 (2009) to 24.1 (2010). India's ranking remained at 67 in 2011, the same as it was in 2010 but worse than 66 in 2008 and 65 in 2009.
Year..2008(2006).....2009(2007).....2010(2008)......2011(2009)
Pakistan GHI...21.7...............21.0.................19.1..................20.7
Pak Ranking....61.................58...................52....................59
India GHI......23.7...............23.9.................24.1..................23.7
India Ranking..66.................65....................67...................67
Since taking the reins of power more than three years ago, the coalition government in Islamabad, which is led by the Pakistan Peoples' Party, has been increasing the support prices of wheat and other agricultural commodities every year, a policy at least partly driven by politics of patronage to enrich the PPP's rural landowning constituency.
In 2008, the current government pushed the procurement price of wheat up from Rs. 625 per 40 kg to Rs. 950 per 40 kg. This action immediately triggered inflationary pressures that have continued to persist as food accounts for just over 40% of Pakistan's consumer price index. According to State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) analysis, cumulative price of wheat surged by 120 per cent since 2008, far higher than the 40 per cent between 2003 and 2007. it is also many times greater than the international market price increase of 22 per cent for wheat in the same period. Similarly, sugar prices have surged 184 per cent higher since 2008, compared with 46 per cent increase during 2003-07.
The World Food Program (WFP) officials agree that decline in food security in Pakistan is now an issue of affordability rather than availability. With stagflation and rising unemployment, growing numbers of people simply lack the income to buy sufficient food for themselves and their families, resulting in under-nutrition and growing hunger.
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5 comments:
has this affected the people living under poverty in both countries? Do you have the latest stats?
Anon: "has this affected the people living under poverty in both countries? Do you have the latest stats? "
Double digit food price increases have obviously hurt the poor the most in South Asia because the poor in India and Pakistan spend more than half their income on food.
Thanks for this. Very informative. I think both India and Pakistan are just about retaining their low positions in the list.; Please note the steady and very impressive performance of Bangladesh. Over period of two decades, Bangladesh has improved its performance by 13.6 points whilst India and Pakistan have improved by a mere 6.7 and 5 points respectively. I see Bangladesh overtaking both India and Pakistan in a couple of years. I wonder if the Grameen Bank has anything to do with it. Pavan
Un less Developing Countries IMPOSE
Population Control like China
this problem will only get worse
Add to it the rising energy prices
and the cost of food production will only go up every year
Land and water are finite resources
When it comes to eating grass to build nukes, all of the available data from international sources shows that many Indians can't even find grass to eat, as hundreds of millions of Indians go to bed hungry every night.
Here's a quote from Times of India poking fun at the superpower claim:
With 21% of its population undernourished, nearly 44% of under-5 children underweight and 7% of them dying before they reach five years, India is firmly established among the world's most hunger-ridden countries. The situation is better than only Congo, Chad, Ethiopia or Burundi, but it is worse than Sudan, North Korea, Pakistan or Nepal.
Today India has 213 million hungry and malnourished people by GHI estimates although the UN agency Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) puts the figure at around 230 million. The difference is because FAO uses only the standard calorie intake formula for measuring sufficiency of food while the Hunger Index is based on broader criteria.
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-01-15/india/30629637_1_anganwadi-workers-ghi-number-of-hungry-people
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