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Global Hunger Index 2014

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International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) released the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2014.GHI Index combines three equally weighted indicators:

  • Proportion of people who are undernourished.
  • Proportion of children under 5 who are underweight.
  • Mortality rate of children younger than age 5

Key messages of GHI 2014 are:

  • The countries that have achieved the greatest improvement are Angola, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Chad, Ghana, Malawi, Niger, Rwanda, Thailand, and Vietnam.
  • 16 countries still have the levels of hunger that are extremely alarming or alarming. Most of these countries are found in Sub-Saharan Africa but also in Haiti, Laos, Timor-Leste and Yemen.
  • 805 million people still suffer from calorie deficiency.
  • Even more alarming is the fact that 2 billion people suffer from hidden hunger, which is the lack of essential vitamins or minerals. It leads to poor health, lower productivity and decreasing life expectancies.

Source

  • IFPRI (2014) Global Hunger Index 2014 (Overview)
  • IFPRI (2014) Global Hunger Index 2014 (Full Report)
  • IFPRI (2014) Global Hunger Index 2014 (Dataset)

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Author: Ippei TsurugaIppei Tsuruga is Social Protection Programme Manager for Indonesia at International Labour Organization. He has been managing programmes and providing technical contributions to social security reforms at the country level in Indonesia, Viet Nam and Myanmar, and also contributing to research and knowledge management at the ASEAN regional and global levels. He has been involved in various policy discussions and research activities on unemployment benefit, old-age, invalidity and survivors’ benefits, maternity benefit, sickness benefit, and the extension of social protection to workers in the informal economy. He has worked at the ILO Country Office for Indonesia and Timor-Leste, the Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific and the Social Protection Department; and JICA Washington D.C. Office, Research Department, Country Office for Kenya, and Africa Department for Kenya, Nigeria and Somalia.

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