The Political Economy of Hunger: Volume 3: Endemic Hunger
Drèze, Jean (Editor),
Delhi School of Economics
Sen, Amartya (Editor),
Master of Trinity College, Cambridge
Print publication date: 1991
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2008 Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-828637-0 doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198286370.001.0001 |
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Abstract:
This book is the third of three volumes. Every year millions of people are losing their lives around the world, undeterred by the widespread opulence and remarkably higher per capita income, because of sporadic famines, endemic undernourishment, and destitution; let alone those hundreds of millions leading lives of never-ending vulnerability and want. This book is a collection of twenty six chapters in three volumes. There are ten chapters in this third volume. The book attempts to explore many of the vague phenomena as to the characteristics, causation, and possible antidotes of hunger in the contemporary world. By carrying out both analytical and empirical investigations, it dwells on the need for a broader perspective for better understanding of the reasons and remedies of hunger.
Keywords: famine, undernourishment, destitution, poverty Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
1.
Feeding China*
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Public Policy and Basic Needs Provision: Intervention and Achievement in Sri Lank*
3.
Growth and Poverty: Some Lessons from Brazil
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Malnutrition and Poverty in Latin America
5.
Undernutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Policy Options for African Agriculture*
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Poverty and Food Deprivation in Kenya's Smallholder Agricultural Areas*
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The Contribution of Industry to Solving the Food Problem in Africa*
9.
The Food Problems of Bangladesh*
10.
The Elimination of Endemic Poverty in South Asia*
Index
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