This chapter studies the interface in poor countries of population growth, rural poverty, and deterioration of the …

This paper demonstrates that well-established biases in decision making under uncertainty can generate poverty traps. A … erroneously undervalue profitable investments, and ii) poverty increases the magnitude of these investment errors. The model … predicts that poverty is perpetuated by inducing poor individuals to underinvest in profitable opportunities to a greater …

increase poverty. One of the more interesting but thus far insufficiently explored mechanisms for the latter is food …

A timely and provocative look at the role political developments and the biology of nutrition play in world famine. …-1850] The Causes of Starvation -- Part II:The Crisis of Nutrition -- [3] The Basics of Nutrition -- [4] The Anatomy and … Physiology of Nutrition -- [5] Agriculture The Birth of Civilization . . .and Famine -- Lessons from the Great Irish Famine [1845 …