The Ethiopian famine.

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Zed Books, 1990Edition: Rev. and updated edDescription: xxviii, 219p. : maps, portsISBN:

0862328349
0862328357

Subject(s):

Famines--Ethiopia

DDC classification:

363.8830963

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Bibliography: p.213-214

Includes index

Section 1 written by Kurt Jansson; Section 2 written by Angela Penrose from research by Michael Harris

The emergency relief operation - an inside view; Prologue; Inside Ethiopia; Western private organisations in a Marxist country; The logistics nightmare; Reaching the people; Aid distribution - control and verification; Resettlement; Fact and fiction - media reporting of the crisis; Epilogue; Postscript 1988; Historical introduction; The eve of famine and revolution - economic conditions; Famine, 1972-74; The fall of the Emperor and emergence of the provisional council; The PMAC - institutionalisation and development; Economic policies and developments under PMAC, 1974-84; Regional political issues; Brief chronology, 1979-March 1984; Monitoring systems and contingency mechanisms; The poor response, March-October 1984; Failure of other potential donors; Action at last - an accelerated response; Wider responses; Possibilities for action in Ethiopia; Underlying long-run considerations - climate and population growth; Postscript - famine 1987-88

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