Download or read book Poverty and Famines written by Amartya Sen and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1983-01-20 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main focus of this book is on the causation of starvation in general and of famines in particular. The author develops the alternative method of analysis—the 'entitlement approach'—concentrating on ownership and exchange, not on food supply. The book also provides a general analysis of the characterization and measurement of poverty. Various approaches used in economics, sociology, and political theory are critically examined. The predominance of distributional issues, including distribution between different occupation groups, links up the problem of conceptualizing poverty with that of analyzing starvation.
Download or read book Poverty and Famines written by Amartya Sen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the causes of starvation in general and famines in particular. The traditional analysis of famines is shown to be fundamentally defective, and the author develops an alternative analysis.
Download or read book Poverty and Famines written by Amartya Kumar Sen and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Entitlement Approach to Famine written by Siddiqur Rahman Osmani and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Theories of Famine written by Stephen Devereux and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1993 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews the major theories and critically examines alternative explanations for famine, describing their implications for preventative policies and corrective interventions.
Download or read book Food Economics and Entitlements written by Amartya Sen and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UN pub. Lecture on food economics, hunger, and the entitlement approach in food shortage analysis - examines the causes of starvation; discusses the acquirement problem in food security, as well as food policy implications.
Download or read book Hunger and Entitlements written by Amartya Sen and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The New Famines written by Stephen Devereux and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-11-22 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent occurrences of famine in Ethiopia and Southern Africa have propelled this key issue back into the public arena for the first time since 1984, as once again it becomes a priority - not only for lesser developed countries but also for the international community. Exploring the paradox that is the persistence of famine in the contemporary world, this book looks at the way the nature of famine is changing in the face of globalization and shifting geo-political forces. The book challenges perceived wisdom about the causes of famine and analyzes the worst cases of recent years – including close analysis of food scarcity in North Korea, Ethiopia, Sudan and Malawi and less well known cases in Madagascar, Iraq and Bosnia. With fresh conceptual frameworks and analytical tools, major theoretical constructs which have previously been applied to analyze famines (such as the 'democracy ends famine' argument, Sen’s 'entitlement approach' and the 'complex political emergency' framework) are confronted. This volume assembles an international team of contributors, including Marcus Noland, Alex de Waal and Dan Maxwell; an impressive roster which helps make this book an important resource for those in the fields of development studies and political economics.
Download or read book Whose Hunger written by Jenny Edkins and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We see famine and look for the likely causes: poor food distribution, unstable regimes, caprices of weather. A technical problem, we tell ourselves, one that modern social and natural science will someday resolve. To the contrary, Jenny Edkins responds in this book: Famine in the contemporary world is not the antithesis of modernity but its symptom. A critical investigation of hunger, famine, and aid practices in international politics, Whose Hunger? shows how the forms and ideas of modernity frame our understanding of famine and, consequently, shape our responses.
Download or read book Hunger and Public Action written by Jean Drèze and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1989 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Famine in European History written by Guido Alfani and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first systematic study of famine in all parts of Europe from the Middle Ages to present. It compares the characteristics, consequences and causes of famine in regional case studies by leading experts to form a comprehensive picture of when and why food security across the continent became a critical issue.
Download or read book Contemporary Famine Analysis written by Olivier Rubin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-11 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Brief provides some answers as to why famines continue to torment humankind here in the 21st century despite all our progress in food production, logistics, information dissemination and relief work. Contemporary famines are inherently political, and so the interesting question is not how famines can be prevented, but why they are allowed to develop in the first place; only by understanding the latter, is there hope to eradicate major famines. The Brief assesses the various analytical approaches to the understanding of famine, from the classical approaches inspired by Thomas Malthus to the newer economic approaches based on Amartya Sen. While all approaches contribute with important insights on famine dynamics, they also struggle to capture the political dimension of contemporary famines. The Brief develops a political approach capable of addressing this important but messy political dimension of contemporary famines. The approach builds on principles of humanitarian accountability (the moral responsibility to alleviate suffering from famine) as well as political accountability (the interests and power relations involved in famine outcomes).
Download or read book The Economics of Famine written by Jean Drèze and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains 19 papers collected from such publications as the Journal of Development Economics, Nutrition and Poverty, and Oxford Economic Papers. Organized into two sections devoted to famine analysis and case studies. The papers tend to utilize the "entitlement" approach to famine studies, which (according to one author) "concentrates on the ability of people to command food through the legal means available in [the] society." Case studies of famine causation and prevention examine countries such as Ethiopia, Bangladesh, India, the Soviet Union during collectivization, and Ireland. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Three Famines written by Thomas Keneally and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Government neglect and individual venality, not food shortages, are historically the causes of sustained, widespread hunger."--Dust jacket.
Download or read book A Re assessment of Entitlement Theory in the Light of the Recent Famines in Africa written by Alexander De Waal and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sweet Charity written by Janet Poppendieck and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999-08-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this era of eroding commitment to government sponsored welfare programs, voluntarism and private charity have become the popular, optimistic solutions to poverty and hunger. The resurgence of charity has to be a good thing, doesn't it? No, says sociologist Janet Poppendieck, not when stopgap charitable efforts replace consistent public policy, and poverty continues to grow.In Sweet Charity?, Poppendieck travels the country to work in soup kitchens and "gleaning" centers, reporting from the frontlines of America's hunger relief programs to assess the effectiveness of these homegrown efforts. We hear from the "clients" who receive meals too small to feed their families; from the enthusiastic volunteers; and from the directors, who wonder if their "successful" programs are in some way perpetuating the problem they are struggling to solve. Hailed as the most significant book on hunger to appear in decades, Sweet Charity? shows how the drive to end poverty has taken a wrong turn with thousands of well-meaning volunteers on board.
Download or read book Famines and Economics written by Martin Ravallion and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
