rice productivity at a relatively late stage in Asia’s Green Revolution, as well as unheralded progress against … undernutrition. To do so the authors create a synthetic panel that aggregates nutritional data from five rounds of the Demographic …

Though famine has affected many parts of the world in the twentieth century, the conditions that produce famineâ … famine context. Broadening current theories and models of development for conquering famine, Famine in Africa grounds its … findings in long-term empirical research, especially on the impact of famine on households and markets. The authors present the …

shocks, and famine to unrest and conflicts. On the policy front, major devel­opments at the global and national levels both …

shocks, and famine to unrest and conflicts. On the policy front, major devel­opments at the global and national levels both …

threat of famine. Since 1990, the Bangladeshi government has dismantled its food rationing system, privatized grain …

nutritional deficiency in the early lives of survivors of the Chinese Great Famine in terms of health and economic welfare, paying … famine survivors." from Author's Abstract …

shocks, and famine to unrest and conflicts. On the policy front, major devel­opments at the global and national levels both …

beings in large part due to lack of data. In this paper, we exploit a natural experiment, the Great Chinese Famine of 1959â … childhood health shocks on the cognitive abilities of the children of parents born during the famine. We find that daughters … born to rural fathers who experienced the famine in early childhood score lower in major tests than sons, whereas children …