Food, Economics, and EntitlementsWorld Institute for Development Economics Research, United Nations University, 1987 - Famines - 32 pages 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. |
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ability to command acquirement problem acquiring food actions of traders Adam Smith Agricultural Amartya Amartya Sen argument availability per head Bangladesh famine Bengal famine cash relief cause famine cent command food commodity bundle countries course David Ricardo decline in food direct food distribution discussion economic analysis ECONOMICS AND ENTITLEMENTS economists employment entitlement analysis entitlement set Ethiopia Ethiopian famine exchange entitlement mapping expansion famine anticipation famine food famine of 1943 famine relief famine situation famine victims focussing food and hunger food imports food policy food prices food problem food production groups to acquire implications incomes inflationary instant economics International labour labour power Leonard Elmhirst Malthus ment occupation groups output per head Oxford particular peasant population Poverty and Famines problem of hunger real scarcity relief camps response rise in food Sahel serious slump famine Sri Lanka starvation starve sub-Saharan Africa UNICEF variables wage labourer wages Wealth of Nations Wicksell Wollo