Political Economy of Hunger: Volume 2: Famine Prevention

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Jean Drèze (, Delhi School of Economics) Amartya Sen, FBA (Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge)

Political Economy of Hunger

Volume 2: Famine Prevention

Jean Drèze (, Delhi School of Economics), Amartya Sen, FBA (Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge)

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Clarendon Press
21 February 1991

Famine; Development economics

Series: WIDER Studies in Development Economics

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.

Edited by: Jean Drèze ( Delhi School of Economics), Amartya Sen, FBA (Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge)
Imprint: Clarendon Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 242mm, Width: 161mm, Spine: 29mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780198286363
ISBN 10: 0198286368
Series: WIDER Studies in Development Economics
Pages: 420
Publication Date: 21 February 1991
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jean Dreze: Famine prevention in India; Jeane Dreze : Famine prevention in Africa; B.G. Kumar: Ethiopian famines 1973-1985: a case study; Meghnad Desai: Modelling an early warning system for famines; Martin Ravallion: Market responses to anti-hunger policies: effects on wages, prices and employment; Jean-Philippe Platteau: The food crisis in Africa: a comparative structural analysis

Reviews for Political Economy of Hunger: Volume 2: Famine Prevention

This volume will probably be widely read, and is likely to prove to be a particularly useful source....Attention to detail sets these studies far above other contemporary writing on hunger and deprivation. --Dissent<br> Obviously an important with immediate implications for countless lives. Those who choose not to turn its pages will be deprived of an intellectual treat. --Journal of Economic Literature<br>