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The Process of Famine: Causes and Consequences in Sudan
Author(s) -
Ati Hassan Ahmed Abdel
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
development and change
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.267
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1467-7660
pISSN - 0012-155X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-7660.1988.tb00302.x
Subject(s) - famine , measles , toll , death toll , population , socioeconomics , economic growth , geography , political science , development economics , demography , medicine , environmental health , economics , sociology , virology , immunology , vaccination , archaeology
In the Sudan, where 200,000 children can die from diseases like diarrhoea and measles in a ‘normal’ year, the toll jumped to somewhere between 350,000 and 700,000 [in 1984]; in the next twelve months one million more could die — out of a total child population of only 6 million. UNICEF estimates that over six million sub‐Saharan infants and children are endangered by famine.