The Republic of Hunger and Other Essays

55th Round academics adjustment advanced countries agrarian crisis Agreement on Agriculture agriculture Andhra Pradesh annually calorie intake calorie norm cent cereals colonial compared consumers consumption cost crores decade decline deflation demand developing countries diversification drought earlier economic reforms Economic Survey economists employment energy intake expenditure groups falling famine farmers Finance food output food security foodgrains foodgrains absorption foodgrains output free trade global price grain absorption growth rate head imports indirect estimates indirect method industry Kenya Kerala labourers land liberalisation lower mass incomes million tonnes neo-liberal nineties NSS data numbers owing Patnaik peasantry peasants percent Planning Commission poor poverty estimates poverty line principal contradiction purchasing power real income reduced rice rise rural areas rural development expenditures rural population sector share stocks Sub-Saharan Africa subsidy suicides Table Tanzania third world trade liberalization trend tropical United Progressive Alliance urban West Bengal wheat World Bank