'Better off thrown behind a ditch': Enniskillen Workhouse during the Great Famine [PDF]
Famine, Poor Relief ...
Desmond McCabe, Cormac Ó Gráda
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From famine to food crisis. What history can teach us about local and global subsistence crises [PDF]
The range of famine prone regions in the world has been shrinking for centuries; it’s currently mainly limited to sub-Sahara Africa. Yet the impact of endemic hunger has not declined and the early 21st century seems to be faced with a new threat: global ...
Vanhaute, Eric
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Famine in North Korea Redux? [PDF]
In the 1990s, 600,000 to 1 million North Koreans, or about 3 to 5 percent of the precrisis population, perished in one of the worst famines of the 20th century.North Korea is once again poised on the brink of famine. Although the renewed provision of aid
Stephan Haggard, Marcus Noland
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In utero and childhood exposure to the great Chinese famine and risk of aging in adulthood
Scientific ReportsBackground Early-life exposure to famine may influence the occurrence of chronic diseases and aging in midlife among those exposed. This study aims to explore the relationship between exposure to the Chinese Great Famine and aging in middle-aged ...
Tao Ma +6 more
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Food Availability and Food Entitlements during the Chinese Great Leap Forward Famine: A dynamic panel data analysis (In French) [PDF]
The article aims at identifying socioeconomic factors which explain the Chinese famine of 1959-1961. The main hypothesis of this paper is that the radicalism of Great Leap Forward policies generated both a decline of agricultural output (availability ...
Matthieu CLEMENT (GREThA UMR CNRS 5113)
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Economic Geography and the Long-run Effects of the Great Irish Famine [PDF]
One of the most important debates in Irish economic history has concerned the long-run effects of the Great Irish Famine, with some arguing that it had only temporary effects on the economy and others seeing it as a major demographic and economic ...
Karl Whelan
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Frontiers in NutritionBackgroundLimited studies have investigated the relationship between famine exposure and the risk of hyperuricemia in later life. Consequently, the primary purpose of the current study was to examine the potential association between exposure to Chinese ...
Huali Xiong +3 more
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Barker's Hypothesis Among the Global Poor: Positive Long-Term Cardiovascular Effects of in Utero Famine Exposure. [PDF]
Demography, 2023 Ciancio A +6 more
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, 2019 Undernutrition during early life may lead to obesity in adulthood. This study was conducted to examine the relationship between famine exposure during early life and the risk of abdominal obesity in adulthood.
Dan Liu +7 more
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Transgenerational and intergenerational effects of early childhood famine exposure in the cohort of offspring of Leningrad Siege survivors. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2023 Tolkunova K +12 more
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