Devi Sridhar

The Battle Against Hunger

Choice, Circumstance, and the World Bank

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Produktbeschreibung

Why have strategies to combat hunger in India failed so badly? How did a nation that prides itself on booming economic growth come to have half of its preschool population undernourished? This book takes up these questions and probes the issues surrounding the World Bank, development assistance, hunger, and aid and power.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 165mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9780199549962
• ISBN-10: 0199549966
• Artikelnr.: 25045529

Autorenporträt

Dr. Devi Sridhar is Fellow in Politics at All Souls College, Oxford and Director of the Global Health Governance Project at the Global Economic Governance Programme.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
1: Hunger: Choice or Circumstance
2: The World Bank in India
3: Understanding Hunger
4: Addressing Hunger
5: The View from the Community
6: What Works
7: The Way Forward
Bibliography