Poverty And Famines的意思|示意

贫困与饥荒 IN HIS 1981 essay, "Poverty and Famines", Amartya Sen, an Indian economist, argued that the 1943 Bengal famine, in which 3m people died, was not caused by any exceptional fall in the harvest and pointed out that food was still being exported from the state while millions perished. He concluded that the main reason for famines is not a shortage of basic food. Other factors-wages, distribution, even democracy-matter more.