Detail The Silent Tsunami: Food Prices are Causing Misery and Strife Around The World. Radical Solutions are Needed   Oleh:  The Economist (Editor) Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 387 no. 8576 (Apr. 2008), page 11. Topik: Food Crisis; Tsunami; United Nations; Hunger Ketersediaan Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE29.48 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada     Lihat Detail Induk Isi artikel Pictures of hunger usually show passive eyes and swoly bellies. The harvest fails because of war or srife; the onset of crisis is sudden and localized. Its burden falls on those already at the margin. Today’s pictures are different. “ This is a silent tsuanami,” says Josette Sheeran of the World Food Programme, a United Nations agency. A wave of food price inflation is moving through the world, leaving riots and shaken governments in its wake. For the first time in 30 years, food protests are erupting in many places at once. Bangladesh is in turmoil (see page 36); even China is worried (page 40), Elsewhere, the food crisis of 2008 will test the assertion of Amartya Sen, an Indian economist, that famines do not happen in democracies. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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