| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 373 pages). |
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WIDER studies in development economics |
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Studies in development economics.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-357) and indexes. |
| Summary |
This book analyses the role of public action in solving the problem of hunger in the modern world and is divided into four parts: Hunger in the modern world, Famines, Undernutrition and deprivation, and Hunger and public action. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
FOREWORD; PREFACE; CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES; LIST OF TABLES; Part I: Hunger in the Modern World; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Past and Present; 1.2 Famine and Chronic Undernourishment; 1.3 Some Elementary Concepts; 1.4 Public Action for Social Security; 2 Entitlement and Deprivation; 2.1 Deprivation and the Law; 2.2 Entitlement Failures and Economic Analysis; 2.3 Availability, Command and Occupations; 2.4 The 'Food Crisis' in Sub-Saharan Africa; 3 Nutrition and Capability; 3.1 World Hunger: How Much?; 3.2 Food Deprivation and Undernourishment; 3.3 Poverty and Basic Capabilities |
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4 Society, Class and Gender4.1 Are Famines Natural Phenomena?; 4.2 Society and Cooperative Conflicts; 4.3 Female Deprivation and Gender Bias; 4.4 Famine Mortality and Gender Divisions; 4.5 Gender and Cooperative Conflicts; 4.6 Protection, Promotion and Social Security; Part II: Famines; 5 Famines and Social Response; 5.1 Famine Prevention and Entitlement Protection; 5.2 African Challenge and International Perception; 5.3 Informal Security Systems and Concerted Action; 5.4 Aspects of Traditional Response; 5.5 Early Warning and Early Action; 6 Famines, Markets and Intervention |
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6.1 The Strategy of Direct Delivery6.2 Availability, Prices and Entitlements; 6.3 Private Trade and Famine Vulnerability; 6.4 Speculation, Hoarding and Public Distribution; 6.5 Cash Support; 6.6 An Adequate Plurality; 7 Strategies of Entitlement Protection; 7.1 Non-exclusion, Targeting and Selection; 7.2 Alternative Selection Mechanisms; 7.3 Feeding and Family; 7.4 Employment and Entitlement; 7.5 A Concluding Remark; 8 Experiences and Lessons; 8.1 The Indian Experience; 8.2 A Case-Study: The Maharashtra Drought of 1970-1973; 8.3 Some African Successes; 8.4 Lessons from African Successes |
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Part III: Undernutrition and Deprivation9 Production, Entitlements and Nutrition; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 Food Self-Sufficiency?; 9.3 Food Production and Diversification; 9.4 Industrialization and the Long Run; 9.5 Cash Crops: Problems and Opportunities; 9.6 From Food Entitlements to Nutritional Capabilities; 10 Economic Growth and Public Support; 10.1 Incomes and Achievements; 10.2 Alternative Strategies: Growth-Mediated Security and Support-Led Security; 10.3 Economic Growth and Public Support: Interconnections and Contrasts; 10.4 Growth-Mediated Security and Unaimed Opulence |
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10.5 Opulence and Public Provisioning10.6 Growth-Mediated Security: The Case of South Korea; 10.7 Support-Led Security and Equivalent Growth; 11 China and India; 11.1 Is China Ahead?; 11.2 What Put China Ahead?; 11.3 The Chinese Famine and the Indian Contrast; 11.4 Chinese Economic Reforms: Opulence and Support; 11.5 China, India and Kerala; 12 Experiences of Direct Support; 12.1 Introduction; 12.2 Sri Lanka; 12.3 Chile; 12.4 Costa Rica; 12.5 Concluding Remarks; Part IV: Hunger and Public Action; 13 The Economy, the State and the Public; 13.1 Against the Current? |
| Local Note |
Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Open Access Books |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Poor -- Government policy -- Developing countries.
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Famines -- Prevention -- Government policy.
(OCoLC)fst00920604
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Overheidsbeleid.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Nutrition policy. (OCoLC)fst01042296
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Social policy. (OCoLC)fst01122738
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Food supply -- Government policy.
(OCoLC)fst00931206
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Famines -- Developing countries -- Prevention -- Government policy.
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| Indexed Term |
Famines Prevention |
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Preventie.
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Hongersnood.
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Developing countries -- Social policy.
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| Local Subject |
Poor people -- Government policy -- Developing countries.
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| Subject |
Nutrition policy -- Developing countries.
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Developing countries. (OCoLC)fst01242969
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Food supply -- Government policy -- Developing countries.
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Poor -- Government policy.
(OCoLC)fst01071075
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
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| Added Author |
Sen, Amartya, 1933- author. Author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Drèze, Jean. Hunger and public action. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford Univ. Press, ©1989 0198286341 9780198286349 (DLC) 89025504 (OCoLC)20562159 |
| ISBN |
9780191521508 (electronic book) |
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0191521507 (electronic book) |
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0198283652 (print edition) |
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9780198283652 (print edition) |
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9780191596193 |
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0191596191 |
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0198286341 |
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9780198286349 |
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9786612006982 |
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6612006986 |
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1282006983 |
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9781282006980 |
