Political Economy of Hunger Volume 3 Endemic Hunger

Jean Dr?ze, Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, Ranchi University, India,Amartya Sen, Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Harvard University

Jean Dr?ze, development economist, has taught at the London School of Economics and the Delhi School of Economics and is currently Visiting Professor at Ranchi University. He has made wide-ranging contributions to development economics and public policy, with special reference to India. He is co-author (with Amartya Sen) of Hunger and Public Action (Oxford University Press, 1989), An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions (Penguin, 2013), and Sense and Solidarity (OUP: 2019).


Amartya Sen teaches economics and philosophy at Harvard University, and was previously Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. He has served as President of the American Economic Association, the Indian Economic Association, the International Economic Association, and the Econometric Society. His awards include the Bharat Ratna (India), Commandeur de la l?gion d'honneur (France), the National Humanities Medal (USA), Honorary Companion of Honour (UK), Ordem Nacional do M?rito Cient?fico (Brazil), and the Nobel Prize in Economics.

1. Introduction, Jean Dr?ze and Amartya Sen
2. Feeding China, Carl Riskin
3. Public Policy and Basic Needs Provision: Intervention and Achievement in Sri Lanka, Sudhir Anand and S. M. Ravi
4. Growth and Poverty: Some Lessons from Brazil, Ignacy Sachs
5. Malnutrition and Poverty in Latin America, S. M. Ravi Kanbur
6. Undernutrition in Sub Saharan Africa, Peter Svedberg
7. Policy Options for African Agriculture, Francis Idachaba
8. Poverty and Food Deprivation in Kenya's Smallholder Agricultural Areas, Judith Heyer
9. The Contribution of Industry to Solving the Food Problem in Africa, Samuel Wangwe
10. The Food Problems of Bangladesh, S. R. Osmani
11. The Elimination of Endemic Poverty in South Asia, Kaushik Basu