Research Catalog

Title

A year in the death of Africa : politics, bureaucracy, and the famine / Peter Gill.

Author

Gill, Peter.

Publication

London : Paladin, 1986.

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Details

Description

191 pages; 20 cm

Summary

Critique of the role of UN, role of USA, role of UK and others in their failure to provide food aid to prevent starvation in Ethiopia, 1984-1985 - describes the political behaviour and the attitudes of the bureaucracys, especially leadership, resulting in food shortages; commends private aid aid institutions for recognising food requirements and attempting to meet them. Maps.

Subject

• 1974-1991
• Geschichte 1984
• Famines > Ethiopia
• Famines
• Politics and government
• Hungersnot
• Hongersnood
• role of UN
• role of USA
• role of UK
• failure
• food aid
• starvation
• political behaviour
• attitude
• bureaucracy
• leadership
• food shortage
• private aid
• aid institution
• food requirements
• rôle de l'ONU
• rôle des Etats-Unis
• rôle du Royaume-Uni
• échec
• aide alimentaire
• famine
• comportement politique
• bureaucratie
• commandement
• pénurie alimentaire
• aide privée
• organisme d'aide
• besoins alimentaires
• papel de la ONU
• papel de los EUA
• papel del Reino Unido
• fracaso
• ayuda alimentaria
• inanición
• comportamiento político
• actitud
• burocracia
• liderazgo
• escasez de alimentos
• ayuda privada
• institución de ayuda
• necesidad alimentaria
• Ethiopia > Politics and government > 1974-1991
• Ethiopia
• Äthiopien
• Ethiopia
• Ethiopie
• Etiopía

Genre/Form

• map.
• carte géographique.
• mapa.

Note

• "Grafton books."
• "A Paladin paperback original."
• Includes index.

ISBN

• 0586085378
• 9780586085370
• 0586085378 (pbk.)

LCCN

87171265

OCLC

• ocm18836968
• 18836968
• SCSB-1700492

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library