Famines Past, Famine's Future

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4969409
AutoresCormac Ó Gráda (0000-0003-4101-3740, University College Dublin, autor de correspondencia)
Año2011
Volumen42
Número1
Páginas49-69
Fecha de publicación2011-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaDevelopment and Change (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0012-155X • E-ISSN: 1467-7660
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-7660.2010.01677.x
PMID21898941
OpenAlexW2128759753
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas20

Famine, like poverty, has always been with us. No region and no century has been immune. Its scars - economic, psychological and political - can long outlast its immediate impact on mortality and health. Famines are a hallmark of economic backwardness, and were thus more likely to occur in the pre-industrialized past. Yet the twentieth century suffered some of the most devastating ever recorded. That century also saw shifts in both the causes and symptoms of famine. This new century's famines have been 'small' by historical standards, and the threat of major ones seemingly confined to ever-smaller pockets of the globe. Are these shifts a sign of hope for the future

Backwardness · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Famine · Globe · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Birth, Development, and Health · Global Health Care Issues · History · Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management · Law · Medicine