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A New Index of Food Security in India.
In this paper we have developed a new food security index. This index is an improvement over all the other food security indices developed by eminent economists and institutions from time to time. It has also been clarified that food security is not the same as hunger. It is a much wider problem. Hu...
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MAN AND DEVELOPMENT
2013
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| 245 | |a A New Index of Food Security in India. | ||
| 260 | |c 2013 |a MAN AND DEVELOPMENT | ||
| 300 | |b Volume 35, No.3 September 2013 | ||
| 520 | |a In this paper we have developed a new food security index. This index is an improvement over all the other food security indices developed by eminent economists and institutions from time to time. It has also been clarified that food security is not the same as hunger. It is a much wider problem. Hunger may be one of the aspects of food security. Our food security index which is developed to measure food security in India consists of five indicators. Child survival rate is an additional indicator in the modified new index. With the help of the index, the trends and situation of food security in India are discussed and analysed from 1991 to 2011. | ||
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