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Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform
Stephan Haggard
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Description for Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform
Hardback. In the mid-1990s, as many as one million North Koreans died in one of the worst famines of the twentieth century. This work presents and account of the famine to date, examining not only the origins and aftermath of the crisis but also the regime's response to outside aid and the effect of its policies on the country's economic future. Num Pages: 368 pages, 59 illus. BIC Classification: 1FPKN; 3JJPR; JFFC1; KCM; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
In the mid-1990s, as many as one million North Koreans died in one of the worst famines of the twentieth century. The socialist food distribution system collapsed primarily because of a misguided push for self-reliance, but was compounded by the regime's failure to formulate a quick response-including the blocking of desperately needed humanitarian relief. As households, enterprises, local party organs, and military units tried to cope with the economic collapse, a grassroots process of marketization took root. However, rather than embracing these changes, the North Korean regime opted for tentative economic reforms with ambiguous benefits and a self-destructive foreign policy. ... Read more
In the mid-1990s, as many as one million North Koreans died in one of the worst famines of the twentieth century. The socialist food distribution system collapsed primarily because of a misguided push for self-reliance, but was compounded by the regime's failure to formulate a quick response-including the blocking of desperately needed humanitarian relief. As households, enterprises, local party organs, and military units tried to cope with the economic collapse, a grassroots process of marketization took root. However, rather than embracing these changes, the North Korean regime opted for tentative economic reforms with ambiguous benefits and a self-destructive foreign policy. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231140003
SKU
V9780231140003
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About Stephan Haggard
Stephan Haggard is the Lawrence and Sallye Krause Professor at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Pathways from the Periphery; The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions (with Robert Kaufman); and The Political Economy of the Asian Financial Crisis.Marcus Noland is a senior fellow at the ... Read more
Reviews for Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform
A rigorous study.
Anna Fifield Financial Times This book belongs on the list of required reading.
Claudia Rosett New York Sun This is a haunting, exasperating, sobering look at an ongoing tragedy.
Terry Hong The Bloomsbury Review The quality of analysis and prose is consistently high throughout.
Brian Myers Acta Koreana A comprehensive and penetrating account. ... Read more
Anna Fifield Financial Times This book belongs on the list of required reading.
Claudia Rosett New York Sun This is a haunting, exasperating, sobering look at an ongoing tragedy.
Terry Hong The Bloomsbury Review The quality of analysis and prose is consistently high throughout.
Brian Myers Acta Koreana A comprehensive and penetrating account. ... Read more