Economic Quote by Jung Chang

I attempted to see famines as broad "economic" problems (concentrating on how people can buy food, or otherwise get entitled to it), rather than…

— Amartya Sen

Famine is a consequence of poverty.

— David Hepworth

“The British tended to base their refusal to intervene in famines with adequate governmental measures on a combination of three sets of considerations: free…

— Shashi Tharoor

Famine emerges from a lack of interlocal trade; when one locality's food crop fails, since there is virtually no trade with other localities, the…

— Murray Rothbard

“Famine isn’t unique to humans. All species are subject to it everywhere in the world. When the population of any species outstrips its food…

— Daniel Quinn

By destroying the peasant economy and driving the peasant from the country to the town, the famine creates a proletariat... Furthermore the famine can…

— Vladimir Lenin

“According to a 2011 Gallup poll, the more money you have, the more likely you are to suffer from time famine.”

— Arianna Huffington

Famine is about so much more than food: it is about a famine of education, democracy, health, transport, and so many other items. The…

— Amber Rudd

Famine was quite deliberately employed as an instrument of national policy, as the last means of breaking the resistance of the peasantry to the…

— William Henry Chamberlin

Famines occur under a colonial administration, like the British Raj in India or for that matter in Ireland, or under military dictators in one…

— Amartya Sen

“Mass famines still strike some areas from time to time, but they are exceptional, and they are almost always caused by human politics rather…

— Yuval Noah Harari

When we talk about famine, people start listing, as I have, its many different elements. We must not let the complexity of the subject…

— Amber Rudd