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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Jean Drèze (, Delhi School of Economics) , Amartya Sen, FBA (Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Clarendon Press Dimensions: Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 24.30cm Weight: 0.738kg ISBN: 9780198286370ISBN 10: 0198286376 Pages: 412 Publication Date: 17 October 1991 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order ![]() Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsCarl Riskin: Feeding China: the experience since 1949; Sudhir Anand & Ravi Kanbur: Public policy and basic needs provision: intervention and achievement in Sri Lanka; Ignacy Sachs: Growth and poverty: some lessons from Brazil; Ravi Kanbur: Malnutrition and poverty in Latin America; Peter Svedberg: Undernutrition in sub-Saharan Africa: a critical assessment of the evidence; Francis Idachaba: Policy options for African agriculture; Judith Heyer: Poverty and food deprivation in Kenya's smallholder agriculture; Samuel Wangwe: The contribution of industry to solving the food problem in Africa; Siddiq Osmani: The food problems of Bangladesh; Kaushik Basu: The elimination of persistent hunger in South Asia: policy optionsReviews<br> The authors are highly respected and the series draws on an extraordinary data base and comparison between countries....This series forms the most definitive recent analysis of the problems of hunger and deprivation in the three continents of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The range of issues and countries covered is nothing short of extraordinary....Meticulously argued....Attention to detail sets these studies far above other contemporary writing on hunger and deprivation. Equally the series is welcome for its criticism of economic growth and food production to the exclusion of equity and distribution. --Dissent<p><br> A valuable companion to the first two excellent volumes, all desirable additions to upper-division undergraduate and gradaute collections. --Choice<p><br> The authors are highly respected and the series draws on an extraordinary data base and comparison between countries....This series forms the most definitive recent analysis of the problems of hunger and deprivation in the three continents of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The range of issues and countries covered is nothing short of extraordinary....Meticulously argued....Attention to detail sets these studies far above other contemporary writing on hunger and deprivation. Equally the series is welcome for its criticism of economic growth and food production to the exclusion of equity and distribution. --Dissent<br> A valuable companion to the first two excellent volumes, all desirable additions to upper-division undergraduate and gradaute collections. --Choice<br> Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |