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Answer the following in a sentence each.

What is the indicator framed to measure the amount of hunger?



Hunger is both a cause and consequence of poverty. This creates food insecurity. To measure the prevalence of hunger in the world and in different countries, the International Food Policy Research Institute calculates the Hunger Index for all the countries in the world. It publishes the result in its annual publication Global Hunger Index (GHI). According to the reports, India's score in the world in GHI is 29 and the condition is considered to be in a serious category.


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