General Studies II · Topic
Poverty and hunger
Official syllabus
Issues relating to poverty and hunger.
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What this covers
Link poverty and hunger through resources, access, health and social exclusion while separating concepts, measurement and policy response.
Key ideas
- Poverty
- Hunger
- Food security
- Measurement
- Causes and responses
Subtopics 4
- 01Measurement and distributionCompare consumption-based and multidimensional poverty measures, their denominators, reference years and distributional limits without inferring a…
- 02Causes and interconnectionsTrace how livelihoods, prices, health, education, exclusion and shocks can interact in poverty and food insecurity without asserting a universal…
- 03Food and nutrition accessDistinguish food availability, access, utilization and stability from diet quality and nutrition outcomes, and separate distribution entitlements…
- 04Policy responses and deliveryMap livelihood, social protection, food-distribution and nutrition interventions to specific bottlenecks and review rights, delivery, quality and…