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Households become hungry and malnourished when the volume of resources they possess or can acquire (including labour power) and the terms on which they can be transformed into food become so unfavourable that an adequate diet can no longer be obtained. There are several reasons why this can occur.
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Amartya Sen, ‘Starvation and Exchange Entitlements: A General Approach and its Application to the Great Bengal Famine’, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Mar. 1977).
V. M. Dandekar and Nilakantha Rath, Poverty in India (Bombay: Economic and Political Weekly, 1971) Tables 1.2 and 1. 3
Anibal Pinto, ‘Styles of Development in Latin America’, CEPAL Review (First Semester 1976) Table 4, p. 114.
Shlomo Reutlinger and Marcelo Selowsky, Malnutrition and Poverty: Magnitude and Policy Options, World Bank Staff Occasional Papers, No. 23 (1976).
The methodology employed in the ten studies as well as the results are summarised in Keith Griffin and Azizur Rahman Khan, ‘Rural Poverty in Developing Countries: An Analysis of Trends with Special Reference to Contemporary Asia’, paper prepared for the Fifth World Congress of the International Economic Association, Tokyo (26 Aug.-3 Sep. 1977 ).
Mahar Mangahas and Raymunda Rimando, ‘The Philippine Food Problem’, mimeo (1976).
See Keith Griffin, The Political Economy of Agrarian Change: An Essay on the Green Revolution ( London: Macmillan, 1974 ).
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Griffin, K. (1978). Inequality, effective demand and the causes of world hunger. In: International Inequality and National Poverty. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04069-8_9
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