Political Economy of Hunger - Volume 2: Famine Prevention (Hardcover, New)

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. WIDER The World Institute for Development Economics Research, established in 1984, started work in Helsinki in 1985, with the financial support of the Government of Finland. The principal purpose of the Institute is to help identify and meet the need for policy-oriented socio-economic research on pressing global and development problems and their inter-relationships. WIDER's research projects are grouped into three main themes: hunger and poverty; money, finance, and trade; and development and technological transformation. Volume II deals with famine prevention, paying particular attention to sub-Saharan Africa. The topics covered include: the problems of early warning and early action; the politics of famine prevention; the influence of market responses; the role of cash support and employment provision in protecting threatened food entitlements; and long-term issues of reduction of famine vulnerability. In addition to general analyses, the book contains a number of case studies of failures and successes in famine prevention, both in South Asia and in sub-Saharan Africa.

General

Imprint:	Clarendon Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	WIDER Studies in Development Economics
Release date:	February 1991
First published:	April 1991
Editors:	Jean Dreze • Amartya Sen (Master of Trinity College, Cambridge)
Dimensions:	242 x 161 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	420
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-828636-3
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Development economics Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Social impact of disasters > Famine
LSN:	0-19-828636-8
Barcode:	9780198286363

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