Wednesday, August 11, 2010

With Many Still Starving, India Rethinks Its Safety Net - NYTimes.com

With Many Still Starving, India Rethinks Its Safety Net - NYTimes.com
India vanquished food shortages during the 1960s with the Green Revolution, which introduced high-yield grains and fertilizers and expanded irrigation, and the country has had one of the world’s fastest-growing economies during the past decade. But its poverty and hunger indexes remain dismal, with roughly 42 percent of all Indian children under the age of 5 being underweight.