ABSTRACT
The triangular relationships between long-term or endemic hunger and poverty (the percentage of the population falling below a minimum level of income or calorie intake), famines (a sudden and steep rise in short-run mortality rates far in excess of trend mortality rates) and human deprivation (inadequate access to health, education and social services) have been and continue to be a matter of considerable debate and discussion, initiated by A.K. Sen and followed subsequently by analytical and empirical verification or elaborations by several others (Dreze, et al., 1995; Dreze and Sen, 1989; Lipton and der Gaag, 1993).
