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Famines and economics [PDF]

open access: possibleJournal of Economic Literature, 1996
The author observes that famine, defined as widespread hunger or starvation, has occurred in most parts of the world in the twentieth century. Famines are more avoidable now than ever before. Famines defy simple explanations and geographic boundaries.
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Famine in Bengal: A Comparison of the 1770 Famine in Bengal and the 1897 Famine in Chotanagpur

The Medieval History Journal, 2006
Famine research has gained ground in both Asia and Africa in recent times and it is well known that British India experienced a series of subsistence crises particularly in the latter half of the nineteenth century. However, analyses of these famines by historians have rarely included a study of environmental changes.
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Famine ? Quelle famine ?

Alternatives Économiques, 2022
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Famine

Postgraduate Medicine, 1965
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Famine: India, 1877

This chapter analyzes the ideological principles that laid the foundations of famine relief in nineteenth-century India. By the late nineteenth century, the modernist confidence in the ability of science to mitigate famine, coupled with a feeling of political responsibility to do so, marked a turning point in the British Empire’s relationship to its ...
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Association of famine exposure with the risk of type 2 diabetes: A meta-analysis

Clinical Nutrition, 2020
Guangbo Qu, Haixia Liu, Tianming Zhao
exaly  

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