Poverty and Famines
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Poverty and Famines is a seminal book by economist Amartya Sen that revolutionized the understanding of famine by arguing that they result more from failures of access and entitlement than from food shortages alone.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| Poverty and Famines canonical | 3 |
| Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation | 2 |
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Target entity: Poverty and Famines Context triple: [Amartya Sen, notableWork, Poverty and Famines]
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A.
The Fears of the Rich, the Needs of the Poor
The Fears of the Rich, the Needs of the Poor is a book by epidemiologist and public health leader William H. Foege that reflects on global health inequities and the moral imperative to address them.
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B.
Malthusian catastrophe
A Malthusian catastrophe is a theoretical scenario in which unchecked population growth outstrips food production, leading to widespread famine, disease, and social collapse.
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C.
Great Famine
The Great Famine was a catastrophic mid-19th-century potato blight in Ireland that caused mass starvation, disease, and a huge wave of emigration, particularly to North America.
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Holodomor
The Holodomor was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that caused the deaths of millions of Ukrainians and is widely regarded as a genocide.
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E.
State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World
State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World is an annual flagship UN report that provides comprehensive analysis and statistics on global hunger, food insecurity, and malnutrition trends.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Poverty and Famines Target entity description: Poverty and Famines is a seminal book by economist Amartya Sen that revolutionized the understanding of famine by arguing that they result more from failures of access and entitlement than from food shortages alone.
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A.
The Fears of the Rich, the Needs of the Poor
The Fears of the Rich, the Needs of the Poor is a book by epidemiologist and public health leader William H. Foege that reflects on global health inequities and the moral imperative to address them.
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B.
Malthusian catastrophe
A Malthusian catastrophe is a theoretical scenario in which unchecked population growth outstrips food production, leading to widespread famine, disease, and social collapse.
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C.
Great Famine
The Great Famine was a catastrophic mid-19th-century potato blight in Ireland that caused mass starvation, disease, and a huge wave of emigration, particularly to North America.
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D.
Holodomor
The Holodomor was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that caused the deaths of millions of Ukrainians and is widely regarded as a genocide.
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E.
State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World
State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World is an annual flagship UN report that provides comprehensive analysis and statistics on global hunger, food insecurity, and malnutrition trends.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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development studies book ⓘ economics book ⓘ non-fiction book ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
development studies
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economics ⓘ political science ⓘ |
| analyzes |
Bangladesh famine of 1974
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Bengal famine of 1943 ⓘ Ethiopian famines ⓘ |
| argues |
distribution and access mechanisms are central to famine
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famines can occur without aggregate food shortage ⓘ market failures and policy failures contribute to famine ⓘ |
| author | Amartya Sen ⓘ |
| coreConcept |
endowment
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entitlement ⓘ exchange entitlement ⓘ failure of entitlements ⓘ food availability decline ⓘ |
| countryOfPublication | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| criticizes | food availability decline theory of famine ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
development economics
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economics ⓘ political economy ⓘ social choice theory ⓘ |
| hasImpactOn |
famine early warning systems
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humanitarian policy ⓘ poverty measurement debates ⓘ |
| hasPart | case studies of historical famines ⓘ |
| influenced |
capability approach debates
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famine studies ⓘ food security policy ⓘ human development theory ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
economic development
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entitlement theory ⓘ famine ⓘ food security ⓘ political economy of famine ⓘ poverty ⓘ welfare economics ⓘ |
| notableFor |
argument that famines are caused by failures of access rather than food availability decline alone
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entitlement approach to famine ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1981 ⓘ |
| publisher | Oxford University Press ⓘ |
| subtitle | An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation ⓘ |
| title | Poverty and Famines self-link ⓘ |
| usedIn |
university courses on development economics
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university courses on food security ⓘ university courses on public policy ⓘ |
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