Jean Drèze, development economist, has taught at the London School of Economics and the Delhi School of Economics and is currently Visiting Professor at Ranchi University. He has made wide-ranging contributions to development economics and public policy, with special reference to India. He is co-author (with Amartya Sen) of Hunger and Public Action (Oxford University Press, 1989), An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions (Penguin, 2013), and Sense and Solidarity (OUP: 2019).Amartya Sen teaches economics and philosophy at Harvard University, and was previously Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. He has served as President of the American Economic Association, the Indian Economic Association, the International Economic Association, and the Econometric Society. His awards include the Bharat Ratna (India), Commandeur de la légion d'honneur (France), the National Humanities Medal (USA), Honorary Companion of Honour (UK), Ordem Nacional do Mérito Científico (Brazil), and the Nobel Prize in Economics.

Review from previous edition the authors are highly respected and the series draws on an extraordinary data base and comparison between countries. Bringing all this together is Amartya Sen, Lamont University Professor at Harvard, who has an unparalleled reputation for his work on famine, equity, and development economics ... This series forms the most definitive recent analysis of the problems of hunger and deprivation in the three continents of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The range of issues and countries covered is nothing short of extraordinary.

• 1: Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen: Introduction 2: Carl Riskin: Feeding China 3: Sudhir Anand and S. M. Ravi: Public Policy and Basic Needs Provision: Intervention and Achievement in Sri Lanka 4: Ignacy Sachs: Growth and Poverty: Some Lessons from Brazil 5: S. M. Ravi Kanbur: Malnutrition and Poverty in Latin America 6: Peter Svedberg: Undernutrition in Sub Saharan Africa 7: Francis Idachaba: Policy Options for African Agriculture 8: Judith Heyer: Poverty and Food Deprivation in Kenya's Smallholder Agricultural Areas 9: Samuel Wangwe: The Contribution of Industry to Solving the Food Problem in Africa 10: S. R. Osmani: The Food Problems of Bangladesh 11: Kaushik Basu: The Elimination of Endemic Poverty in South Asia

Jean Drèze, development economist, has taught at the London School of Economics and the Delhi School of Economics and is currently Visiting Professor at Ranchi University. He has made wide-ranging contributions to development economics and public policy, with special reference to India. He is co-author (with Amartya Sen) of Hunger and Public Action (Oxford University Press, 1989), An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions (Penguin, 2013), and Sense and Solidarity (OUP: 2019).Amartya Sen teaches economics and philosophy at Harvard University, and was previously Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. He has served as President of the American Economic Association, the Indian Economic Association, the International Economic Association, and the Econometric Society. His awards include the Bharat Ratna (India), Commandeur de la légion d'honneur (France), the National Humanities Medal (USA), Honorary Companion of Honour (UK), Ordem Nacional do Mérito Científico (Brazil), and the Nobel Prize in Economics.

Review from previous edition the authors are highly respected and the series draws on an extraordinary data base and comparison between countries. Bringing all this together is Amartya Sen, Lamont University Professor at Harvard, who has an unparalleled reputation for his work on famine, equity, and development economics ... This series forms the most definitive recent analysis of the problems of hunger and deprivation in the three continents of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The range of issues and countries covered is nothing short of extraordinary.

• 1: Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen: Introduction 2: Carl Riskin: Feeding China 3: Sudhir Anand and S. M. Ravi: Public Policy and Basic Needs Provision: Intervention and Achievement in Sri Lanka 4: Ignacy Sachs: Growth and Poverty: Some Lessons from Brazil 5: S. M. Ravi Kanbur: Malnutrition and Poverty in Latin America 6: Peter Svedberg: Undernutrition in Sub Saharan Africa 7: Francis Idachaba: Policy Options for African Agriculture 8: Judith Heyer: Poverty and Food Deprivation in Kenya's Smallholder Agricultural Areas 9: Samuel Wangwe: The Contribution of Industry to Solving the Food Problem in Africa 10: S. R. Osmani: The Food Problems of Bangladesh 11: Kaushik Basu: The Elimination of Endemic Poverty in South Asia

Jean Drèze, development economist, has taught at the London School of Economics and the Delhi School of Economics and is currently Visiting Professor at Ranchi University. He has made wide-ranging contributions to development economics and public policy, with special reference to India. He is co-author (with Amartya Sen) of Hunger and Public Action (Oxford University Press, 1989), An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions (Penguin, 2013), and Sense and Solidarity (OUP: 2019).Amartya Sen teaches economics and philosophy at Harvard University, and was previously Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. He has served as President of the American Economic Association, the Indian Economic Association, the International Economic Association, and the Econometric Society. His awards include the Bharat Ratna (India), Commandeur de la légion d'honneur (France), the National Humanities Medal (USA), Honorary Companion of Honour (UK), Ordem Nacional do Mérito Científico (Brazil), and the Nobel Prize in Economics.

Review from previous edition the authors are highly respected and the series draws on an extraordinary data base and comparison between countries. Bringing all this together is Amartya Sen, Lamont University Professor at Harvard, who has an unparalleled reputation for his work on famine, equity, and development economics ... This series forms the most definitive recent analysis of the problems of hunger and deprivation in the three continents of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The range of issues and countries covered is nothing short of extraordinary.

• 1: Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen: Introduction 2: Carl Riskin: Feeding China 3: Sudhir Anand and S. M. Ravi: Public Policy and Basic Needs Provision: Intervention and Achievement in Sri Lanka 4: Ignacy Sachs: Growth and Poverty: Some Lessons from Brazil 5: S. M. Ravi Kanbur: Malnutrition and Poverty in Latin America 6: Peter Svedberg: Undernutrition in Sub Saharan Africa 7: Francis Idachaba: Policy Options for African Agriculture 8: Judith Heyer: Poverty and Food Deprivation in Kenya's Smallholder Agricultural Areas 9: Samuel Wangwe: The Contribution of Industry to Solving the Food Problem in Africa 10: S. R. Osmani: The Food Problems of Bangladesh 11: Kaushik Basu: The Elimination of Endemic Poverty in South Asia