Jean Dreze: Famine prevention in India; Jeane Dreze : Famine
prevention in Africa; B.G. Kumar: Ethiopian famines 1973-1985: a
case study; Meghnad Desai: Modelling an early warning system for
famines; Martin Ravallion: Market responses to anti-hunger
policies: effects on wages, prices and employment; Jean-Philippe
Platteau: The food crisis in Africa: a
comparative structural analysis
Open access funded by UNU-WIDER
`Sen and his associates deserve a lot of credit for bucking the
general trend.
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Times Higher Education Supplement
`the authors are highly respected and the series draws on an
extraordinary data base and comparison between countries. Bringing
all this together is Amartya Sen. Lamont University Professor at
Harvard, who has an unparalleled reputation for his work on famine,
equity, and development economics ... 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.'
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Dissent
`This is an uncommonly fine collection of papers by prominent
authors. A valuable addition to upper-division undergraduate and
graduate collections in development economics.'
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C.L. Nelson, Davidson College, CHOICE, Dec '91
`The volumes will become a standard reference for research in the
field of hunger, famines and poverty and some of the papers are
appropriate for reading lists in under- and post-graduate courses.
The value of the approach to famine and hunger developed by Sen and
Dreze ultimately lies in case studies.
'
Athar Hussain, London School of Economics, The Economic Journal,
Dec '91
`a considerable, and highly stimulating contribution
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Pramit Chaudhuri, University of Sussex, The Journal of Development
Studies, Vol. 28, No. 2, Jan '92
`Unquestionably the most satisfying book - although on a very grim
subject - that I read this year is the two-volume The Political
Economy of Hunger edited by Amartya Sen and Jean Dreze.
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Indian Review of Books, Oct. '92
`This is obviously an important book with immediate implications
for countless lives. Those who choose not to turn its pages will be
deprived of an intellectual treat.
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John Komlos, University of Pittsburgh, Journal of Economic
Literature, Vol. XXX (September 1992)
`The array of articles in all three Drèze and Sen volumes is
astounding.
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Thomas R. DeGregori, University of Houston, Africa Today, 4th
Quarter 1992
`the most ambitious treatment of the intertwined issues of hunger,
famines and well-being currently in print ... Drèze and Sen's
collection is a massive achievement and will doubtless become an
obligatory reference for every student on the subject. Certain
essays, notably those by Jean Drèze himself, should also become
obligatory reading for all practitioners in the field.
'
Development and Change, Vol. 24 (1993)
`A must for the study of poverty and famine.'
Arabsheibani, London School of Economics
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