Factors that increase vulnerability to famine include poverty, weak social and physical infrastructure, a weak and unprepared government, and a relatively closed political regime. The author observes that famine, defined as widespread hunger or starvation, has occurred in most parts of the world...

This Article argues that the norms and legal practices of global finance in the arenas of sovereign debt and private wealth have led to a significant market failure, in particular the over-supply of sovereign borrowing and a related misallocation of global capital away from its most productive...