05934nam 2200901 a 450 991081425310332120240516001935.097866120069820-19-828634-10-19-152150-71-282-00698-310.1093/0198283652.001.0001(CKB)2560000000293765(EBL)3053288(OCoLC)63294296(SSID)ssj0000087422(PQKBManifestationID)11121233(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000087422(PQKBWorkID)10053183(PQKB)10818217(SSID)ssj0000175287(PQKBManifestationID)12065349(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000175287(PQKBWorkID)10189129(PQKB)10991903(StDuBDS)EDZ0000073973(MiAaPQ)EBC3053288(Au-PeEL)EBL3053288(CaPaEBR)ebr10283761(CaONFJC)MIL200698(MiAaPQ)EBC5746053(EXLCZ)99256000000029376520091031d1989 fy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrHunger and public action /Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen1st ed.Oxford Clarendon1989Oxford :Oxford University Press,1991.1 online resource (392 p.)WIDER studies in development economicsIncludes indexes.0-19-828365-2 0-19-159619-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Capabilities4 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 Intervention6.1 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 SuccessesPart 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 Opulence10.5 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?13.2 Famines and UndernutritionThis 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.WIDER studies in development economics.Food supplyGovernment policyDeveloping countriesFaminesPreventionGovernment policyDeveloping countriesFaminesPreventionCitizen participationPoorGovernment policyDeveloping countriesNutrition policyDeveloping countriesDeveloping countriesSocial policyFood supplyGovernment policyFaminesPreventionGovernment policyFaminesPreventionCitizen participation.PoorGovernment policyNutrition policy363.8/56/091724363.852091724Drèze Jean375278Sen Amartya1933-119897World Institute for Development Economics Research.StDuBDSStDuBDSBOOK9910814253103321Hunger and public action841805UNINA