Morning Briefing

Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee's "budget includes a big boost in spending on reducing malnutrition," with an increase for malnutrition programs of "58 percent in fiscal 2012-13 to 158 billion rupees, or about $3 billion," the Wall Street Journal's "India Real Time" blog reports. "Despite its rapid economic growth, India has struggled with persistently high rates of malnutrition, far worse than many worse-performing economies," according to the blog.