Globally, there were 809.9 million undernourished people, of which 194.4 million people (24 per cent) were in India in 2016-18. India had around 30.9 per cent (46 millions) of the world’s stunted children under five years of age and 50.9 per cent (25.2 million) of the world’s wasted children in 2016-18 (FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP and WHO, 2019). Moreover, a study by Kharas et al. (2018) projects that ...

Innovation has been a vital component of the American success story. In fact, the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress estimates that as much as 50% of all economic growth in the US over the past half-century can be attributed to productivity gains resulting from innovation.2 Patents have, therefore, been integral to the United States’ approach to incentivizing innovation by ensuring that ...