Poverty and Famines
Poverty and Famines

Author: Amartya Sen

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 1983-01-20

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 0191037435

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The main focus of this book is on the causation of starvation in general and of famines in particular. The author develops the alternative method of analysis—the 'entitlement approach'—concentrating on ownership and exchange, not on food supply. The book also provides a general analysis of the characterization and measurement of poverty. Various approaches used in economics, sociology, and political theory are critically examined. The predominance of distributional issues, including distribution between different occupation groups, links up the problem of conceptualizing poverty with that of analyzing starvation.

Hungry Bengal
Hungry Bengal

Author: Janam Mukherjee

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 0190209887

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Examines the interconnected events including World War II, India's struggle for independence, and a period of acute scarcity that lead to mass starvation in colonial Bengal.

The Rice Economy of Asia
The Rice Economy of Asia

Author: Randolph Barker

Publisher: Int. Rice Res. Inst.

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 0915707152

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The purpose of this book is to present a comprehensive picture of the role of rice in the food and agricultural sectors of Asian nations.

Tobacco and Public Health
Tobacco and Public Health

Author: Peter Boyle

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 840

ISBN-13: 9780198526872

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This book comprehensively covers the science and policy issues relevant to one of the major public health disasters of modern times. It pulls together the aetiology and burden of the myriad of tobacco related diseases with the successes and failures of tobacco control policies. The book looks at lessons learnt to help set health policy for reducing the burden of tobacco related diseases. The book also deals with the international public health policy issues which bear on control of the problem of tobacco use and which vary between continents. The editors are an international group distinguished in the field of tobacco related diseases, epidemiology, and tobacco control. The contributors are world experts drawn from the various clinical fields. This major reference text gives a unique overview of one of the major public health problems in both the developed and developing world. The book is directed at an international public health and epidemiology audience includng health economists and those interested in tobacco control.