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Food availability, food entitlements, and radicalism during the Chinese great leap forward famine: an econometric panel data analysis

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Clément, Matthieu
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	The purpose of this article is to investigate the socio-economic as well as the political, institutional, and ideological causes of the Chinese famine of 1959–1961. The main hypothesis of this paper is that the radical policies implemented as part of the Great Leap Forward resulted in agricultural output decline (i.e., availability issues), and in the implementation of an ineffective food distribution policy affecting rural populations (i.e., accessibility issues). An econometric analysis, based on provincial panel data from the 1954–1966 period, stresses the effect of ill-advised economic policies in handling the famine. This analysis also confirms that the increase in mortality rates during the famine was caused by the simultaneous collapse in food availability and food accessibility in rural areas.
Starting Page	89
Ending Page	114
Page Count	26
File Format	PDF
ISSN	18632505
Journal	Cliometrica
Volume Number	6
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	18632513
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	2011-05-21
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Great leap forward Famine Food availability Entitlements Dynamic panel data models Generalized method of moments Econometrics History Methodology and the History of Economic Thought Economic Theory
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	History Economics and Econometrics

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