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January 20, 2012
India's PM Calls Malnutrition a ‘National Shame’
While India is the world’s largest democracy and boasts of the fastest number of growing "dollar millionaires" a recent study shows that child malnutrition has reached roughly 42 percent—almost double the rate of sub-Saharan Africa.

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