Is democracy the answer?: Famine prevention in two Indian states

The New Famines: Why Famines Persist in an Era of Globalization

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 290-311

  Banik, Dan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

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EID: 70949107320     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203014424     Document Type: Chapter

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