Food availability, entitlements and the Chinese famine of 1959-61

Economic Journal

Volumn 110, Issue 460, 2000, Pages 136-158

  Lin, Justin Yifu ^a   Yang, Dennis Tao ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAMINE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD SECURITY;

CHINA;

EID: 0033970052     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0297.00494     Document Type: Article

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