Famines do not occur in democracies, no substantial famine has - TopicsExpress



          

Famines do not occur in democracies, no substantial famine has ever occurred in a democratic country, no matter how poor, because famines are extremely easy to prevent if the government tries to prevent them, and a government in a multiparty democracy with elections and free media has strong political incentives to undertake famine prevention, because it has the opposition parties to voice criticisms and that permits newspapers to report freely and question the wisdom of government policies without extensive censorship. -- "Development as Freedom", Amartya Sen, Noble Prize winner in Economics
Posted on: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 07:37:31 +0000

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