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Hunger rises as food aid falls – and those living under autocratic systems bear the brunt

  • Written by Jonas Gamso, Associate Professor and Deputy Dean of Knowledge Enterprise for the Thunderbird School of Global Management, Arizona State University
Hunger rises as food aid falls – and those living under autocratic systems bear the bruntVolunteers hand out USAID flour at the Zanzalima Camp in Ethiopia.J. Countess/Getty Images

“No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy,” observed Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen in his 1999 book “Development as Freedom.”

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