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India's Cabinet Passes Food Security Bill
"India's cabinet agreed on Sunday to tackle widespread malnutrition with food subsidies for two-thirds of the country's 1.2 billion population, a move that may shore up support for the government but carries risks for the faltering economy," Reuters reports. "The new scheme aims to tackle rates of child malnutrition that are worse than in sub-Saharan Africa, but critics say slowing growth and a widening fiscal deficit in Asia's third largest economy mean the timing of the bill is irresponsible," the news agency writes (Prusty, 12/18).
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