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Ethiopian Famines 1973-1985: A Case-Study

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  • Gopalakrishna Kumar

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The paper studies the experience of Ethiopia with regard to the two major famines the country has witnessed in the last fifteen years. It is argued that the entitlements approach developed by Amartya Sen provides a useful analytical framework within which to place the experience of Ethiopia during the famines of 1972-75 and 1982-85 even though these crises were largely caused by declines in food availability rather than by distributional shifts.

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  • Gopalakrishna Kumar, 1987. "Ethiopian Famines 1973-1985: A Case-Study," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-1987-026, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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    1. Sen, Amartya K, 1977. "Starvation and Exchange Entitlements: A General Approach and Its Application to the Great Bengal Famine," Cambridge Journal of Economics, Cambridge Political Economy Society, vol. 1(1), pages 33-59, March.
    2. Rashid, Salim, 1980. "The Policy of Laissez-Faire during Scarcities," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 90(3593), pages 493-503, September.
    3. Sen, Amartya, 1983. "Development: Which Way Now?," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 93(372), pages 742-762, December.
    4. Sen, Amartya, 1987. "Reply: Famine and Mr Bowbrick," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 12(1), pages 10-14, February.
    5. Ravallion, Martin, 1985. "The Performance of Rice Markets in Bangladesh during the 1974 Famine," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 95(377), pages 15-29, March.
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    3. Dariusz Rosati & Kalman Mizsei, 1989. "Adjustment through Opening of Socialist Economies," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-1989-052, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).

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