Analyses the problem of hunger and deprivation in the modern world and providing a survey of current thinking on hunger. An important reference work. Contents: Amartya Sen, Food, Economics and Entitlements; Ravi Kanbur, Global Food Balances and Individual Hunger: an Entitlements Based Approach; Rehman Sobhan, The Politics of Hunger and Entitlement; Kirit Parikh, Chronic Hunger in the World: Impact of International Policies; N Ram, An Independent Press and Anti-Hunger Strategies: the Indian Experience; Partha Dasgupta and Debraj Ray, Adapting to Undernourishment: the Biological Evidence and its Implications; SR Osmani, Nutrition and the Economics of Food: Implications of Some Recent Controversies; Sudhir Anand and Christopher Harris, Food and Standard of Living: an Analysis Based on Sri Lankan Data; Barbara Harris, The Intrafamily Distribution of Hunger in South East Asia; Ann Whitehead, Rural Women and Food Production in Sub-Saharan Africa.
"An uncommonly fine collection of papers by prominent authors."--Choice
"Obviously an important book with immediate implications for countless lives. Those who choose not to turn its pages will be deprived of an intellectual treat."--Journal of Economic Literature