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The Political Economy of Hunger: Volume 2: Famine Prevention
Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen
Abstract
This book is the second 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 six chapters in this second volume. The book attempts to explore many of the vague phenomena as to the characteristics, causation, and possible antidotes of hunger in t ... More
Keywords: anti-famine strategies, undernourishment, destitution, poverty
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 1991 | Print ISBN-13: 9780198286363 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2008 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198286363.001.0001 |
