Political Economy of Hunger

Volume 1: Entitlement and Well-being
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-0-19-886017-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 512 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 772 g

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This volume is the first of three addressing a wide range of policy issues relating to the role of public action in combating hunger and deprivation in the modern world. It deals with the background nutritional, economic, social, and political aspects of the problem of world hunger.

Topics covered include the characteristics and causal antecedents of famines and endemic deprivation, the interconnections between economic and political factors, the role of social relations and the family, the special problems of women's deprivation, the connection between food consumption and other indicators of living standards, and the medical aspects of undernourishment and its consequences.

Several contributions also address the political background of public policy, in particular the connection between the government and the public, including the role of newspapers and the media, and the part played by political commitment and by adversarial politics and pressures. Taken together, these essays provide a comprehensive and authoritative analysis of the problem of hunger and deprivation, and an important guide for action.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Drèze, Jean

Sen, Amartya

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wohlfahrtsökonomie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Entwicklungspolitik, Nord-Süd Beziehungen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen: Introduction

- 2: Amartya Sen: Food, Economics, and Entitlements

- 3: S. M. Ravi Kanbur: Global Food Balances and Individual Hunger: Three Themes in an Entitlements Based Approach

- 4: Rehman Sobhan: The Politics of Hunger and Entitlement

- 5: Kirit S. Parikh: Chronic Hunger in the World: Impact of International Policies

- 6: N. Ram: An Independent Press and Anti Hunger Strategies: The Indian Experience

- 7: Partha Dasgupta and Debraj Ray: Adapting to Undernourishment: The Biological Evidence and its Implications

- 8: S. R. Osmani: Nutrition and the Economics of Food: Implications of Some Recent Controversies

- 9: Sudhir Anand and Christopher Harris: Food and Standard of Living: An Analysis Based on Sri Lankan Data

- 10: Barbara Harriss: The Intrafamily Distribution of Hunger in South Asia

- 11: Ann Whitehead: Rural Women and Food Production in Sub Saharan Africa

Über Autor(innen)

Jean Drèze, development economist, has taught at the London School of Economics and the Delhi School of Economics and is currently Visiting Professor at Ranchi University. He has made wide-ranging contributions to development economics and public policy, with special reference to India. He is co-author (with Amartya Sen) of Hunger and Public Action (Oxford University Press, 1989), An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions (Penguin, 2013), and Sense and Solidarity (OUP: 2019).

Amartya Sen teaches economics and philosophy at Harvard University, and was previously Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. He has served as President of the American Economic Association, the Indian Economic Association, the International Economic Association, and the Econometric Society. His awards include the Bharat Ratna (India), Commandeur de la légion d'honneur (France), the National Humanities Medal (USA), Honorary Companion of Honour (UK), Ordem Nacional do Mérito Científico (Brazil), and the Nobel Prize in Economics.