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India-Pakistan
Growing malnutrition
2012-02-17
IS the purpose of a government to perpetuate a deplorable system, or address the issues of the people? In Pakistain, it would appear to be the former. Those in positions of influence in Islamabad and at the top tiers of society play a long-term game in which various elements engage in efforts to out-manoeuvre each other. Meanwhile,
...back at the fist fight, Jake ducked another roundhouse, then parried with his left, then with his right, finally with his chin...
the electorate continues to be mired in ever-worsening poverty. A Save the Children report launched in Islamabad on Wednesday found that 38 per cent of surveyed families had been forced to cut down on food intake while 58 per cent were food insecure; one in five parents said that their child did not get enough food. While Pakistain does not yet have the highest rate of stunting among children due to malnutrition -- that dubious honour goes to India -- the stunting rate in the country has gone up by almost 50 per cent over the past decade. Over the next 15 years, Pakistain will have the highest percentage of stunted children.

This is not the first report that presents such an appalling picture. Last month, the National Nutritional Survey presented similar findings on malnutrition. In 2011, a World Bank report said the poorest households were spending up to 70 per cent, or more, of their income on food alone. And nutrition is hardly the only sector showing such pitiful statistics. Every indicator of welfare has taken a sharp downward turn. Consider the spiralling rates of unemployment and illiteracy, for example. It is not that efforts have not been made to counter the situation, but that almost all initiatives are piecemeal and linked to specific governments or personalities. Clearly, policymaking in development does not figure highly on the state's agenda, regardless of the government in power. Few policies can be expected to survive a change at the helm. It is not surprising then that the poor continue to become poorer with little access to even the most basic of human rights
...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty...
. With elections round the corner, the political elite as a whole may wish to dwell on this situation.
Posted by:trailing wife

#5  The EU hates you. Just read a review of a biography of Norman Borlaug, arguably one of the five greatest humans of the 20th century.
At the time [of the Green Revolution], Forrest Frank Hill, a Ford Foundation vice president, told me, “Enjoy this now, because nothing like it will ever happen to you again. Eventually the naysayers and the bureaucrats will choke you to death, and you won’t be able to get permission for more of these efforts.” Hill was right. His prediction anticipated the gene-splicing era that would arrive decades later. . . . The naysayers and bureaucrats have now come into their own. If our new varieties had been subjected to the kinds of regulatory strictures and requirements that are being inflicted upon the new biotechnology, they would never have become available”

We are not reaping what they purposely failed to sow. And hundreds of millions will needlessly suffer and starve.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2012-02-17 12:50  

#4  Suicide vests are too heavy for a kid with rickets.
Posted by: flash91   2012-02-17 10:53  

#3  send Moochelle over to lecture the on healthy eating
Posted by: Frank G   2012-02-17 07:58  

#2  Allan hates you!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2012-02-17 06:27  

#1  "With elections round the corner, the political elite as a whole may wish to dwell on this situation."

Hate Jews and America and you may be elected and your people still starve. But you feed your tyrants, yes you will.
Use your fake GOD to scare them or make them faithful and lead them just like Amalek - back into slavery.


Par for the course
Posted by: newc   2012-02-17 01:37  

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