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- Padam Singh, Anura V Kurpad, Davendra Verma, Arun K Nigam, Harshpal S Sachdev, Arvind Pandey, Rajkumar Hemalatha, Sila Deb, Kumud Khanna, Shally Awasthi, Gurudayal Singh Toteja, Priyanka G Bansal, Zaozianlungliu Gonmei, and Balram Bhargava.
- Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India.
- Indian J Med Res. 2021 Mar 1; 154 (3): 455-460.
AbstractThe Global Hunger Index (GHI) is calculated and disseminated annually. India, which is the 5th largest economy in the world and has a good ranking in many other indicators, has a poor ranking based on this index. After a critical review of the appropriateness of the indicators used in GHI, the Indian Council of Medical Research has the viewpoint that the indicators of undernourishment, stunting, wasting and child mortality do not measure hunger per se. Referring to this index as a Hunger Index, and thereby ranking countries is not appropriate, since many of the measures that are used to evolve an index that measures hunger are probably contextual. Countries should therefore evolve their own measures that are suitable for their own context.
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