Famine prevention

Author(s)

• Drèze, Jean
• Sen, Amartya Kumar

Bibliographic Information

Famine prevention

（The political economy of hunger / edited by Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen, v. 2）

Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1990

Other Title

WIDER studies in development economics

Note

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

"WIDER studies in development economics"--T.p. verso (CIP)

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

• 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

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Details

• NCID: BA11746381
• ISBN:
  • 0198286368
• LCCN: 90007663
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford,New York ; Tokyo
• Pages/Volumes: xx, 400 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HC800.Z9
  • LCC : DC20:363.8/83/0967
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Famines -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Case studies
  • LCSH : Food relief -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Case studies
  • LCSH : Famines -- South Asia -- Case studies
  • LCSH : Food relief -- South Africa -- Case studies
  • LCSH : Hunger -- Case studies
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB13676750