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Author Haggard, Stephan.

Title Famine in North Korea : markets, aid, and reform / Stephan Haggard and Marcus Noland ; foreword by Amartya Sen.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 309 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-301) and index.
Contents Introduction: Famine, aid, and markets in North Korea -- The origins of the great famine -- The distribution of misery : famine and the breakdown of the public distribution system -- The aid regime : the problem of monitoring -- Diversion -- The political economy of aid -- Coping, marketization, and reform : new sources of vulnerability -- Conclusion : North Korea in comparative and international perspective.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Summary Beginning sometime in the early 1990s and extending into 1998, North Korea experienced famine. We estimate that the great North Korean famine killed between six hundred thousand and one million people, between 3 and 5 percent of the entire population of the country. Such events are national traumas that live in the collective memory for generations. Famines produce countless personal tragedies: watching loved ones waste away from hunger and disease; making fateful choices about the distribution of scarce food; migrating to escape the famine's reach; and, all too often, facing the stark reality that these coping strategies are futile. A full understanding of such disasters can only be communicated through their human face: the individual experience of the suffering and humiliation that extreme deprivation brings to its victims. Through refugee accounts, this human face of the North Korean famine is slowly becoming available to us and speaks far more eloquently than we can here.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
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Subject Famines -- Korea (North)
Famines.
Korea (North)
Food supply -- Korea (North)
Food supply.
Food relief -- Korea (North)
Food relief.
Korea (North) -- Economic conditions.
Economic conditions.
Korea (North) -- Economic policy.
Economic policy.
Korea (North) -- Social conditions.
Social conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Noland, Marcus, 1959-
Other Form: Print version: Haggard, Stephan. Famine in North Korea. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2007 0231140002 (DLC) 2006025653 (OCoLC)70921386
ISBN 9780231511520 (electronic book)
0231511523 (electronic book)
9780231140003 (clothbound ; alkaline paper)
0231140002 (clothbound ; alkaline paper)