{"id":359,"date":"2009-09-01T00:10:55","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T04:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg-development\/?p=359"},"modified":"2011-11-20T20:47:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T00:47:00","slug":"review-of-the-battle-against-hunger-choice-circumstance-and-the-world-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/2009\/09\/01\/review-of-the-battle-against-hunger-choice-circumstance-and-the-world-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of The Battle against Hunger: Choice, Circumstance, and the World Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/files\/2011\/11\/Bennett-Gokcekus_book-review_The-Battle-Against-Hunger_Fall-2009.pdf\">Review of <em>The Battle against Hunger: Choice, Circumstance, and the World Bank<\/em><\/a>, by Devi Sridhar New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. 256 pp. Hardcover: $85.00, ISBN: 9780199549962<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reviewed by Jeremy M. Bennett and Omer Gokcekus<\/p>\n<p>For over four decades, there has been recognition that hunger represents a serious development problem. Since the 1970s, addressing this issue has been a major concern of the World Bank and the international development community at-large. The Bank has touted the Tamil Nadu Integrated Nutrition Project (TINP) in the state of Tamil Nadu, India, as a program where its efforts have made a substantive and positive impact upon this issue. In <em>The Battle Against Hunger: Choice, Circumstance, and the World<\/em> <em>Bank<\/em>, Devi Sridhar critiques the effectiveness of this program and the underlying intellectual framework. Sridhar argues that the Bank\u2019s efforts to tout TINP as a success were over-optimistic, and, moreover, were marked by a philosophy on how to address malnutrition that did not adequately account for how social realities and context specific circumstances affect this complex problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review of The Battle against Hunger: Choice, Circumstance, and the World Bank, by Devi Sridhar New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. 256 pp. Hardcover: $85.00, ISBN: 9780199549962 Reviewed by Jeremy M. Bennett and Omer Gokcekus For over four decades, there has been recognition that hunger represents a serious development problem. Since the 1970s, addressing this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":585,"featured_media":894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-review","category-world-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/585"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":888,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions\/888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}