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The Political Economy of Hunger: Selected Essays

Jean Drèze

An abridged selection of papers from the highly successful hardbacks.

Essays on Economic Decisions Under Uncertainty

Jacques Drèze

Professor Dreze is a highly respected mathematical economist and econometrician. This book brings together some of his major contributions to the economic theory of decision making under uncertainty, and also several essays.

India: Development and Participation

Jean Drèze

This book explores the role of public action in eliminating deprivation and expanding human freedoms in India.

An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictions

Jean Dreze

This book presents a powerful analysis not only of India's deprivations and inequalities, but also of the restraints on addressing them - and of the possibility of change through democratic practice.

Hunger and Public Action

Jean Drèze

An analysis of the problem of hunger in the modern world and of the role that public action can play in combating it. It is aimed at economists, social scientists and all those concerned with the management of food and health resources.

India, economic development and social opportunity

Jean Drèze

This book argues that an assessment of India's failure to eliminate basic deprivations has to go beyond this limited focus, and to take note of the role played in that failure by inadequate public involvement in the provision of basic ...

Food and Society: A Sociological Approach

William C. Whit

References Anand, Sudhir, and S.M. Ravikanbur. 1991. "Public Policy and Basic Needs Provision: Intervention and Achievement in Sri Lanka." In The Political Economy of Hunger, vol. 3. Endemic Hunger, ed. Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen, ...

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Jean Béliveau: My Life in Hockey

Jean Beliveau

Few professional athletes have been as loved and respected as Jean Béliveau, captain of the fabled Montreal Canadiens during the team’s glory years in the 1950s and 1960s.

Doctor in a Dress: The Life and Times of Bonnie Jean ...

Bonnie Jean Blacklock MD

As a little girl, Bonnie Jean Blacklock played with pill bugs and lizards instead of dolls.

CANINE NUTRIGENOMICS: THE NEW SCIENCE OF FEEDING YOUR DOG ...

W. Jean Dodds, DVM

Dr. W. Jean Dodds Dr. W. Jean Dodds received the D.V.M. degree with honors in 1964 from the Ontario Veterinary College, University of Toronto. In 1965, she accepted a position with the New York State Health Department in Albany and ...

The Bondurants of America: Jean Pierre and Ann

Mary Bondurant Warren

Jean Pierre Bondurant, son of Jean Pierre Bondurant (1636-1694) and Gabrielle Barjon (1642-1695), was born in 1676 in Génolhac, Gard, France.

Pierre and Jean

Guy De Maupassant

Pierre and Jean is a naturalist or psycho-realist work written by Guy de Maupassant. Pierre and Jean are the sons of Gérôme Roland, a jeweller who has retired to Le Havre, and his wife Louise.

The Video Annual

Jean T. Kreamer

Jean T. Kreamer ... Emerging Video Enhancements to Curriculum, by Peter Schillaci, 15 Video and Copyright: An Overview of Some Basic Issues, by Dr. Jean T. Kreamer, Raymond Morgan Allen, and Dr. Thomas L. Kreamer, 27 Videos for ...

Rainbow pour Rimbaud

Jean TEULÉ

C'est comme si Jean Teulé avait joué l'alphabetblues des voyelles de Rimbaud sur la trompinette de Boris Vian." Jean Vautrin J'ai aimé passionément ce livre pour l'esprit et la liberté qui le guide.

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Jean-Baptiste Pietri

Traducteur / Translator: Images / Images: Nick Hargreaves Agence Jean-Baptiste Pietri architecte, DATE DUE ... Accorsi Conception graphique / Graphic design: Jean-Claude Chianale Editions /Publisher: Archives d'Architecture Moderne Rue ...

Kylie Jean Pirate Queen

Marci Peschke

Kylie Jean wants to be a pirate queen, but the boys in her class don't think girls can be pirates. Can Kylie Jean and her friends change their minds?

IMAGINE SOCIETY: a POEM a DAY - Volume 4: Jean Mercier's a ...

Jean Mercier

" Junichiro Kuniyoshi Children's Novelist & Co-Creator of A Poem A Day ----- Teachers and Students: The author authorizes the use of this book in your classroom. * See how you can get poet and film director Jean Mercier in person or on ...

Kate Millett and Jean-Jacques Lebel: Sexual Outlaws in the ...

Laurel Jean Fredrickson

L'Homme qui marche

Jean Béliveau

Jean le marcheur laisserait derrière lui Béliveau le poseur d’enseignes pour avaler le monde ou s’offrir à lui, l’avenir le dirait. »C’est sur un coup de tête que Jean Béliveau décide de quitter son Québec natal pour une ...

Dialogs: reading and writing in the disciplines

Jeffrey Carroll

Reprinted by permission. Peter and Jean Medawar, "Biological Inheritance, Nucleic Acids, the Genetic Code." Excerpt from The Life Science: Current Ideas of Biology by Peter and Jean Medawar. Copyright © 1977 by Peter and Jean Medawar ...

Las réplicas más divertidas del cine

Jean-Claude Brialy

G.: Alien Boretz, Howard Harris, László Vadnay. Dial.: Sydney Zelinka. ... G.: Jean Aurenche, Bertrand Tavernier. Dial.: Jean Aurenche. A.: Jim ... Dial: David Schwartz. cuatrocientos golpes, Los {Les 400 coups, 1959). D.: Francois Truffaut. G.: ...

Histoire de Saint Louis

Jean Joinville (sire de)

Jean Joinville (sire de) Natalis de Wailly. du corps, 500, 502. e—_Il voit S. Louis en songe et lui élève un autel, 504. — Il écrit l'his— toire de S. Louis et la dédie à Louis X, 2, 10, 12, 506. Jean de J oinville, sire d'Ancerville, fils de l'historien, 76.

Teaching Jean Toomer's 1923 Cane

Chezia Thompson-Cager

Chris Antoinides, Jean Toomer: The Burden of Impotent Pain, Pt. A US ISSN 0419-4209, Pt.B US ISSN 0419-4217, Ann Arbor, ... Hargis Westerfield, "Jean Toomer's Fern: A Mythical Dimension," College Language Association Journal, 14, No.

Liquid stone: new architecture in concrete

Jean-Louis Cohen

Contents Introduction Jean-Louis Cohen and G. Martin Moeller, Jr. ESSAYS Architecture and Technology: Two Centuries of Creative Tension Antoine Picon Modern Architecture and the Saga of Concrete Jean-Louis Cohen A Material Without ...

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Acoustical Society of America

Remi Souchon, Jean-Christophe Bera, Agnes Pousse, and Jean- Yves Chapelon ; 115 (5), 2412 (A). — Thermal ablation by interstitial ultrasound. — Cyril Lafon, David Melodelima, Jean- Yves Chapelon, and Dominique Cathignol; 115 (5), ...