Markets and Famines - Brossura

Ravallion, Martin

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0198287275 ISBN 13: 9780198287278

Casa editrice: Oxford Univ Pr, 1990

Riassunto

Famines have presented a persistent challenge to economic thought, provoking debates over the importance of aggregate food availability and the role of markets and governments in allocating limited food. This study of the economics of famine applies some modern methods of economic investigation to such issues, showing how the sharp increases in mortality observed during famines can arise without a decline in aggregate food availability, and how the markets' use of information about future scarcity is crucial to their performance during a famine. Including a detailed empirical investigation of the 1974 famine in Bangladesh, this book sheds new light on the way markets work during famines and on the effects of policies aimed at famine relief or prevention.

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Book by Ravallion Martin

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Oxford Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1990
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0198287275
• ISBN 13: 9780198287278
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 208
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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