If it were a matter of correcting failures, the task would be relatively easy. But if the signals propagated by the market are based on a very unequal distribution of land, other assets, and income, it is market success in responding to these signals that causes the trouble. What is needed then is fundamental structural change, a redistribution of assets and of access to power. By making sure that surveillance is reported at many different levels, both within state structures and outside. Nutrition surveillance of children through clinics should be analyzed at the clinic level, and at the district, regional, and national levels.
Districts can argue for increased levels of support within regional or national structures.
Again, that was seen in Botswana. This is an important question. They also, of course, tend to stay with the kind of information they know best. Since the response to drought and food shortages often has large budgetary implications, economists are often involved in the decisions about that response. Such people are likely to be more alert to financial arguments than arguments about reservoir levels, cattle deaths, expected crop yields, or human undernutrition.