SECOND TAKE
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR: India’s food programmes hold lessons for rest of the world
Due to more than a half-century of reforms country has managed to feed most of its 1.3-billion people
06 May 2021 - 10:15
India is now home to one in three new coronavirus cases globally. But that is not India’s only burden. It also accounts for nearly 60% of the global increase in poverty caused by the pandemic. The Covid-19 recession in India has increased the number of poor people — those living on less than $2 a day — by 75-million.
Yet despite the grim numbers the South Asian nation has done something quite well over the past year. It has managed to feed most of its 1.3-billion people, a result of more than a half-century of reforms aimed at ending the country’s history of famines...
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