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Is India’s food security bill the magic pill?

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Despite robust economic growth and rising incomes, India remains a hungry republic. It ranks 65 out of 79 countries on the Global Hunger Index from the International Food Policy Research Institute. By the , nearly half of India's children under five are chronically malnourished. From 2005-2010, India ranked second to last among 129 countries on underweight children, below Ethiopia, Niger, Nepal and Bangladesh. Surveys a decade go found that 36% of Indian women of childbearing age were underweight, compared to 16% in 23 Sub-Saharan countries. Economists Amartya Sen and Jean Dreze have called India's inability to properly feed its women and children "catastrophic failures, with…

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