Famine in North Korea markets, aid, and reform
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...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press
2007.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31681074*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
