Hunger and public action
By: Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen.
Contributors: Sen, Amartya Kumar.
Series: WIDER Studies in develoment economics
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Oxford [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
Subjects: Food supply -- Government policy -- Developing countries.; Famines -- Prevention -- Government policy -- Developing countries.; Poor -- Government policy -- Developing countries.; Nutrition policy -- Developing countries; Developing countries -- Social policy.
Description: An analysis of the problem of hunger in the modern world and of the role that public action can play in combating it. It is aimed at economists, social scientists and all those concerned with the management of food and health resources.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-357) and indexes.