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Roughly 1.5 million of North Korea’s 23 million people are estimated to have starved to death over the past decade.
Beginning in 1930, some 1.3 million people starved in Kazakhstan as their meager crops were requisitioned according to central directives.
More than five million people starved to death or died of hunger-related disease in the USSR in the early 1930’s, 3.3 million of them in Ukraine, of which about three million would have survived had Stalin simply ceased requisitions and exports for a few months and granted people access to grain stores.
This meant that some 30 million Chinese starved to death in 1958-1961, in a famine very similar to that in the Soviet Union.
Even today, collective agriculture is the basis for tyrannical power in North Korea, where hundreds of thousands of people starved in the 1990’s.
Another five million starved in the famine of 1930-1933, of whom 3.3 million were Ukrainians who died as a result of a deliberate policy related to their nationality or status as relatively prosperous peasants known as kulaks.
The Long Marchers persevered, fought, starved, despaired, and endured.
I do not want anyone to forget that over less than half of the years contained in the past century—from the outbreak of World War I to the famine that followed Mao’s “Great Leap Forward”—about one in every ten people alive on this planet was shot, gassed, stabbed, burned, or starved to death by his or her fellow human beings.
Today, with Iran starved of technology and spare parts for existing equipment, OPEC’s second-largest oil producer in 2006 has become a net importer of refined petroleum products.
Moreover, political gridlock will ensure that little is done about the other festering problems confronting the American economy: mortgage foreclosures are likely to continue unabated (legal complications aside); small and medium-sized enterprises are likely to continue to be starved of funds; and the small and medium-sized banks that traditionally provide them with credit are likely to continue to struggle to survive.
He achieved an enviable rate of economic development for a country starved of natural resources, helped to eradicate poverty, and deepened Tunisia’s ties with Europe through tourism, trade, and cultural relations.
Likewise, small and medium-size enterprises in emerging economies are starved for financing.
And yet investment projects with high social returns were being starved of funds.
Quoting the Chinese proverb, “A starved camel is still bigger than a horse,” he went on to say that Europe’s economies are much stronger than many people believe.
For starters, because Chinese firms are not starved for capital – thanks to China’s chronic savings glut – gaining access to foreign technologies is their main motivation for trying to attract direct investment from abroad.
Starved of cash, PDVSA was forced to cut back on maintenance and expansion, which increased the number of accidents and limited production.
Kim was a brutal dictator, who pampered himself with the finest French brandies (allegedly $500,000 a year’s worth), fresh sushi flown in from Tokyo, and the best chefs money could buy, while millions of his subjects starved to death.
Starved for ScienceAMSTERDAM – In the Mekong Delta, farmers obtain 6-7 tons of rice per hectare in dry seasons and 4-5 tons per hectare in wet seasons, using fast-maturing rice varieties that allow up to three consecutive yields annually.
With nothing left to eat, the caterpillars, not ready to begin the next stage of their life cycle, all starved to death.
International relief agencies are also starved for cash and resources.
The problem with the Europeans is that all they have are declarations and speeches--a policy toward the region that is rich in lofty rhetoric, but poor if not starved in the capacity to implement anything concrete.
In drought-affected areas, the midday meal scheme has allowed children who otherwise would have starved to overcome malnourishment.
“The same girl whom prosecutors depicted as a she-devil starved for sex and orgies was, in inverse proportion, perceived in American public opinion as a chaste diva who fell into a hornets’ nest of inept, evil men.”
But a currency board will also help to start financial intermediation for the benefit of small and medium sized firms who have been starved of capital by the experience of recurrent crisis and bad credit.
Moreover, they face an economy starved of credit, in which the crisis endangered many companies whose bankruptcy would have no systemic effect.
Indeed, in the US, politicians who dared to talk about the health, environmental, or sustainability implications of processed food would in many cases find themselves starved of campaign funds.
We must not allow them to be starved into submission.
After all, it is not as if America’s large corporations were starved for cash; they are sitting on a couple of trillion dollars.
The Dalai Lama fled to India, and for at least a decade things became a lot worse: many Tibetans – possibly more than a million – starved to death during Chairman Mao’s Great Leap Forward campaign, temples and monasteries were smashed, sometimes by Tibetan Red Guards, during the Cultural Revolution, and a large number of people died in the violence.
These investments have failed to increase the competitiveness of Chinese SOEs, yet have starved efficient local entrepreneurs of the credits they need.
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