You can’t prevent undernourishment so easily, but famines you can stop with half an effort. Then the question was why don’t the governments stop them? (Amartya Sen)

You can’t prevent undernourishment so easily, but famines you can stop with half an effort. Then the question was why don’t the governments stop them?

Amartya Sen

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