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This international political economy study analyzes the international regime and outcome of hunger as well as their effects on the incidence of hunger. In doing so, it touches a large variety of other disciplines such as trade and development economics, demography,. international finance and rural society. Four issue areas that are globally upheld as solutions to the problem of world hunger are studied in detail. These are: family planning to diminish population growth and the number of people to be fed; food trade, to import food according to comparative advantage increase the total supply of food in developing countries; structural adjustment, to increase the efficiency of economy-wide resource allocation and stimulate food production; and food aid, to temporarily assist the developing countries in their economic development. The relevance of these cases to the theory of international political economy and international organization is discussed throughout.

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Author:   Peter Uvin
Publisher:   Kegan Paul
Imprint:   Kegan Paul
Weight:   0.566kg
ISBN:  

9780710304667

ISBN 10:   0710304668
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   12 January 1993
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part 1 International Politics and Food: The Framework 1 Combining Social Sciences: the Sociology of International Politics 2 Food Production: the Political Economy of Inefficiency Part II The International Organization of Food and Hunger 3 Understanding Hunger 4 On Wars Fought with Butter, not with Guns: the International Food Trade Outcome 5 Regimes, Surplus and Self-Interest: the International Politics of Food Aid, Part 1 The Politics Food Aid Part II Food Aid and Hunger 6 The Unbearable Lightness of Beings: the International Organization of Population 7 The Years of Adjusting Dangerously Part 1 Structural Adjustment and Conditionality Part II Agriculture, Politics, the Poor and Structural Adjustment, Conclusion: Interdependence, Regimes and Hegemony

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