A World without Famine?: New Approaches to Aid and Development

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Introduction....Pages 1-23
A World without Hunger: An Ethical Imperative....Pages 24-47
Front Matter....Pages 49-49
Was the Great Famine Just Like Modern Famines?....Pages 51-71
The Great Famine: A Simple General Equilibrium Model....Pages 72-83
Friedrich List and the Causes of Irish Hunger....Pages 84-106
The Historical Roots of Famine Relief Paradigms....Pages 107-127
Famine Relief, Piecework and Women Workers: Experiences in British India....Pages 128-157
Front Matter....Pages 159-159
Famine, Demography and Endemic Poverty....Pages 161-195
Front Matter....Pages 197-197
Aid and Drought: Responding to the Human and Economic Consequences of Natural Disasters....Pages 199-220
Structural Adjustment and Drought in Sub-Saharan Africa....Pages 221-240
Drought and the Zimbabwe Economy, 1980–93....Pages 241-273
Dancing with El Niño: Drought, the State and the Nutritional Welfare of Rural Children in Zimbabwe....Pages 274-301
Front Matter....Pages 303-303
A Future Food Aid Regime: Implications of the Final Act of the Uruguay Round....Pages 305-334
Hunger, Poverty and Human Development: Analysing the Debate between the UNDP and the OECD....Pages 335-351
Irish Aid in Famines and Other Complex Emergencies....Pages 352-369
Front Matter....Pages 371-371
Rural Public Works and Food Entitlement Protection: Towards a Strategy for Preventing Hunger....Pages 373-403
Potential for Improving the Efficiency and Cost-Effectiveness of Food Aid Grain Delivery....Pages 404-417
Laws for the Rich and Flaws for the Poor? Legal Action and Food Insecurity in the Kalahandi Case....Pages 418-448
The Politics and Governance of Poverty Alleviation Programmes: Is Sub-Saharan Africa Learning from Latin America?....Pages 449-488
Taking Root … Gaining Ground: Diversity in Food Production for Universal Food Security....Pages 489-508
Back Matter....Pages 509-524