India score worse than Barkino Faso on Hunger Index: Edges out Haiti–worst in South Asia


Noticias de Rupia | Nouvelles de Roupie | Rupiennachrichten | новости рупии | 卢比新闻 | Roepienieuws | Rupi Nyheter | ルピーニュース | Notizie di Rupia | PAKISTAN LEDGER | پاکستاني کھاتا | Moin Ansari | معین آنصآرّی | DefensebriefsIntellibriefs Translate to: Page copy protected against web site content infringement by Copyscape Bookmark and Share Add to Technorati RSS feed: | RUPEE NEWS | October 15th, 2008 | Moin Ansari | معین آنصآرّی | اخبار روپیہ | India’s faltering $41 Billion IT economy cannot salvage the lot of the poor. While a triumphalist media discusses the “growth of the Indian middle class”, the reality of India’s penury stricken population is very different. The higher the number the worse off the country. India ranks below Cambodia and Burkino Faso in terms of hunger. It is slightly better off that Haiti, Zimbabwe and Bangladesh. Pakistan’s fares much better and is not listed on this chart. Cuba has taken care of its population and eliminated malnutrition, hunger and child mortality. It has done more with less and is the example that needs to be followed. Cuba produces more doctors for less and offers free medical education to citizens of the world. 1000 Cuban doctors served in cold Azad Kashmir and helped the victims of the earthquake.

India scored worse than nearly 25 sub-Saharan African countries and all of South Asia, except Bangladesh,” the report says.

When Indian states are compared to countries in the Global Hunger Index, [the central Indian state of] Madhya Pradesh ranks between Ethiopia and Chad,” it says.

India is long known to have some of the highest rates of child malnutrition and mortality in under-fives in the world.

According to the Indian government statistics two years ago, around 60% of more than 10 million children in the state were malnourished (International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) along with Welthungerhlife and the University of California)

THE COUNTRIES WITH THE WORST RECORD ON HUNGER. THE HIGHER THE NUMBER THE WORSE IT IS. INDI RANKS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE HEAP. On this chart Cambodia is the best and Congo the worst. India is worse than Burkino Faso and slightly better than Zimbabwe, and Haiti

64 Cambodia 32.4 23.2
65 Burkina Faso 25.1 23.5
66 India 32.5 23.7
67 Zimbabwe 20.2 23.8
68 Tanzania 26.1 24.2
69 Haiti 35.9 24.3
70 Bangladesh 32.3 25.2
71 Tajikstan n/a 25.9
72 Mozambique 40.9 26.3
73 Mali 29.6 26.9
74 Guinea-Bissau 23 27.5
75 Central African Rep 32 28
76 Madagascar 29.1 28.8
77 Comoros 26.4 29.1
78 Zambia 29.1 29.2
79 Angola 39.8 29.5
80 Yemen 30.7 29.8
81 Chad 37.5 29.9
82 Ethiopia 44 31
83 Liberia 27.3 31.8
84 Sierra Leone 32.4 32.2
85 Niger 38 32.4
86 Burundi 32.6 38.3
87 Eritrea n/a 39
88 DR Congo 25.5 42.7
Source: IFPRI (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7670229.stm)

The 2008 Global Hunger Index of developing and transitional countries has been published.

The annual survey, by the International Food Policy Research Institute in conjunction with Welthungerhilfe and Concern Worldwide, ranks 88 countries on under-nourishment, prevalence of child malnutrition and rates of child mortality. The higher the index score, the worse the performance.

Bar chart showing how Indian states compared with nations in World Hunger Index

Amnesty International (AI) 2008 report on issues within India: http://rupeenews.com/2008/05/29/amnesty-int-2008-report-excoriates-horrid-india

  1. It may surprise many, but the are of highest concern is not Kashmir, but the rising tide of communalism, Anti-Christian, Anti-Dalit, and Anti-Muslim. The Naxalite insurrection led by Dalits and Maoists that comprises more than 40% of the landmass of the country.Three major groups – Maoist Communist Centre, People’s War Group and CPI (ML) – have merged to form a united outfit called CPI (Maoist). It affirmed: The revolution will be carried out and completed through armed agrarian revolutionary war; that is, protracted people’s war with the armed seizure of power remaining as its central and principal task, encircling the cities from the countryside and thereby finally capturing them.”
  2. Kashmir was concerned as the biggest threat to the country’s unity but in recent years, many in New Delhi thought that they had swollowed Srinagar. Kashmir is in fever pitch. This year’s insrurrection caught them by sruprise. the Divide between Jammu and Kashmir now is irrerable and even the puppet Farooq Abdullah who sold his soul to Delhi for a few Dollars and a title, says “Kashmir will go on a platter to Pakistan.” Paper Tigers: Indian tenuous “hold” on Kashmir is slipping fast
  3. The third are of security conern for New Delhi is open rebellion in the Northeast. These insurections do not make it to the daily headlines on CNN, but the fact is the New Delhi has very little control of Assam and the seven sisters that lie East of Bangadesh. Even Chinese occupied territory mislabeled “Aranchal Pradesh” has a huge body of rebels that want nothing to do with Delhi.
  4. Communalism is a big threat to the so called “secular” country. Brahmans in Jammu in 2008 led a boycott of Kashmir forcing the Kashmiris to strive to trade directly with Pakistan. Church burning in Orissa are problem exacerbated by the sepratists who strive for freedom from Delhi. The Gujarits Hinduvata massacred 3000 Muslims and hundreds of thousands are scared to goback to their homes.

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Superpower India Pt 2 Extremist Hindus revere Hitler and use the Swastika as the Indian flag

How long to extripate penury from india? 300 years! India’s budget– fit for a superpower Murder of 10 million Indian girl babies:Before or right after birth. The media is silent.
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The 2nd world revolution (after Buddhism) from Nepal: Another threat to India

The Singh Doctrine Fails to achieve Akhand Bharat

Is India a Failed State? The chimera and the facts of slick marketing schemes by “India Inc.”

  • India as World Power 1
  • Superpower India Pt 2
  • India’s budget– fit for a superpower
  • Murder of 10 million Indian girl babies:Before or right after birth. The media is silent.
  • India Balkanizing? Naxalite insurrection widening cracks in deep cavaties
  • India: 3500-yrs of massacres of Dalit-Sudra Blacks by Arya-Brahmins
  • Sudra Holocaust: Genocide of 1 million Dalits in India since 1947: About three million Dalit women have been raped and around one million Dalits killed from the time of Independence. This is 25 times more than number of soldiers killed during the wars fought after independence. That is why Dalits do not need Aryan culture or Hindu Dharma based on caste any more. …” [Dr. Tulsiram]
  • All Dalits want to convert to Islam & build Muslim-untouchable alliance
  • APPENDIX

    GLOBAL HUNGER INDEX 2008

    Lowest index score = best

    Rank Country 1990 2008
    1 Mauritius 6.1 5.0
    2 Jamaica 8.0 5.1
    3 Moldova n/a 5.4
    4 Cuba 7.3 5.5
    5 Peru 19.5 5.6
    6 Trinidad &Tobago 8.0 5.9
    7 Algeria 7.4 6.0
    8 Albania 10.5 6.3
    9 Turkmenistan n/a 6.4
    10 El Salvador 9.7 6.5
    10 Malaysia 9.5 6.5
    10 Morocco 7.7 6.5
    13 Colombia 9.6 6.7
    14 South Africa 7.4 6.9
    15 China 11.6 7.1
    16 Fiji 12.7 7.3
    17 Surinam 10.7 7.5
    18 Gabon 11.3 7.6
    19 Venezuela 8.3 7.7
    20 Paraguay 8.3 7.9
    21 Guyana 14.6 8.6
    22 Panama 10.1 8.9
    23 Thailand 18.4 9.9
    24 Armenia n/a 10.2
    25 Azerbaijan n/a 10.4
    26 Uzbekistan n/a 11.2
    27 Indonesia 16.0 11.3
    28 Honduras 16.1 11.4
    29 Bolivia 16.5 11.7
    30 Dominican Republic 14.0 12.0
    31 Mongolia 18.9 12.1
    32 Vietnam 23.9 12.6
    33 Nicaragua 16.4 12.8
    34 Ghana 24.4 13.9
    35 Philippines 18.9 14.0
    36 Lesotho 14.2 14.3
    36 Namibia 21.4 14.3
    38 Guatemala 16.1 14.6
    39 Burma* 18.7 15.0
    39 Sri Lanka 19.1 15.0
    41 Benin 22.8 15.1
    42 Ivory Coast 19.4 15.3
    43 Senegal 22.1 15.4
    44 Uganda 19.9 17.1
    45 Gambia 18.4 17.3
    46 Mauritania n/a 17.6
    47 Swaziland 13.4 17.7
    48 Botswana 16.7 17.9
    49 Togo 23.0 18.2
    50 Nigeria 23.7 18.4
    50 East Timor n/a 18.4
    52 Cameroon 22.0 18.7
    53 North Korea* 13.1 18.8
    54 Rep of Congo 26.2 19.1
    55 Kenya 23.5 19.9
    56 Sudan* 24.5 20.5
    57 Laos 28.1 20.6
    57 Nepal 27.6 20.6
    59 Djibouti n/a 20.9
    59 Guinea 29.3 20.9
    61 Pakistan 25.3 21.7
    62 Malawi 32.2 21.8
    63 Rwanda 28.3 22.3
    64 Cambodia 32.4 23.2
    65 Burkina Faso 25.1 23.5
    66 India 32.5 23.7
    67 Zimbabwe 20.2 23.8
    68 Tanzania 26.1 24.2
    69 Haiti 35.9 24.3
    70 Bangladesh 32.3 25.2
    71 Tajikstan n/a 25.9
    72 Mozambique 40.9 26.3
    73 Mali 29.6 26.9
    74 Guinea-Bissau 23.0 27.5
    75 Central African Rep 32.0 28.0
    76 Madagascar 29.1 28.8
    77 Comoros 26.4 29.1
    78 Zambia 29.1 29.2
    79 Angola 39.8 29.5
    80 Yemen 30.7 29.8
    81 Chad 37.5 29.9
    82 Ethiopia 44.0 31.0
    83 Liberia 27.3 31.8
    84 Sierra Leone 32.4 32.2
    85 Niger 38.0 32.4
    86 Burundi 32.6 38.3
    87 Eritrea n/a 39.0
    88 DR Congo 25.5 42.7

    *Underlying data considered unreliable

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