World's starvation problem appears not due entirely to food shortage. From the same news source, The Times of India, where one article discussed the dawning obesity problem among school children, another article described a woman's death from starvation. The mal-distribution problem happens not only in parts of the world but can also occur in different parts of the same country. Even a wealthy country like the United States still has pockets of people suffering from starvation.
THE TIME OF INDIA, 23 Apr 2008, 0539 hrs IST,Rajesh Kumar Pandey,TNN
DUMKA: The visit of the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, coincided with the starvation death of a Paharia community woman thus putting a question mark on the tall claims being made by the UPA government to have introduced different social security schemes for the downtrodden.
One Kaiti Pujaharin of the village Thari under Ramgarrh block of the district and belonging to the one of the most primitive tribal groups, Paharia, died in Dumka Sadar Hospital on Sunday as she was admitted here in a critical situation due to starvation for the last several days. More....
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