Optimal Famine Relief in a Market Economy

Stephen T.R. Coate

Working Paper from Economics Department, Queen's University

Abstract: In a competitive equilibrium model, this paper investigates how a government should intervene in an economy threatened by famine if it's objective is to minimise the loss of life. The government's task is formulated as a nonlinear programming problem and the Kuhn Tucker Theorem is used to characterise an optimal policy.

Pages: 30 pages
Date: 1984
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