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India: An Overview
Although India is the world’s fourth largest economy in purchasing power, it suffers from high levels of poverty, illiteracy and malnutrition. According to the World Bank, India has one of the highest percentages of under-nourished children in the world. In addition, more than 350 million people in India still live on less than a dollar a day (DFID). Due to poverty, lack of access to healthy food, lack of nutritional knowledge and hygienic food preparation practices, 53% of children under the age of four are malnourished and 60% of women are anaemic. Almost one third of babies are born with a low birth weight and nearly 50% remain underweight until the age of three (UNICEF). Mumbai is a city of huge contrasts. Home of Bollywood and the world’s diamond polishing trade, it boasts some of the most expensive real estate in the world. However, statistics indicate that more than half of the city’s swelling 16 million population lives in ‘informal’ housing or slums.
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