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    Bangladesh famine of 1974

    Famine in Bangladesh

    The Bangladesh famine of 1974 began in March 1974 and ended in about December of the same year. The famine is considered one of the worst in the 20th century; it was caused by government mismanagement, food grain smuggling to neighboring countries and flooding along the Brahmaputra River among other issues, resulting in high mortality. The government of Bangladesh estimated the number of deaths at 27,000 while according to experts, 1.5 million people must have died in total because of the famine. Wikipedia

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  2. en.wikipedia.org

    The Bangladesh famine of 1974 (Bengali: ১৯৭৪-এর দুর্ভিক্ষ, romanized: 1974-Ēr Durbhikkho) began in March 1974 and ended in about December of the same year.The famine is considered one of the worst in the 20th century; it was caused by government mismanagement, food grain smuggling to neighboring countries and flooding along the Brahmaputra River among other ...
  3. en.wikipedia.org

    Pages in category "Famines in Bangladesh" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Bangladesh famine of 1974; Great Bengal famine of 1770; Bengal famine of 1943 This page was last edited on 12 April 2021, at 20:12 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
  4. famine of 1974/75 in Bangladesh provides us with an interesting starting point. The study is designed as follows. In section II, we first attempt to provide a general framework for a study of famines. Next, in Section III, we briefly evaluate the significance of famines in Bangladesh, with a particular overview of the 1974/75 famine.
  5. britannica.com

    Other articles where Bangladesh famine is discussed: famine: The role of policy: …for example, that the Bangladesh famine of 1974, which was precipitated by the effects of widespread flooding, would have been less severe if the state's food-rationing system had not been in place. The rationing system was flawed because it provided subsidized rationed food to only the country's urban ...
  6. jbs.bdiusa.org

    Bangladesh famine: The food availability approach offers very little in the way of explanation of the Bangladesh famine of 1974. The total output, as well as availability figures for Bangladesh as a whole, points precisely in the opposite direction, as do the inter-district figures of production as well as availability.
  7. Whatever the Bangladesh famine of 1974 might have been, it wasn't a FAD (food availability decline, i.e. lack of food) famine. Amartya Sen, in Poverty and Famines 1981. One of the underlying causes of inflation is the level of monetary demand in the economy - how much money is being spent. If the demand for a product, e.g. crop, is greater than ...
  8. jbs.bdiusa.org

    economic events that led to the 1974 Bangladesh famine. It argues that this famine was not caused by a sudden decline in the aggregate availability of food by natural disasters; rather, the genesis of it can be traced to expansionary economic policies that the government of Bangladesh undertook immediately after the independence of the country.
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