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| | Tanco Memorial Lecture by Amartya Sen - August 1990, London |
 | | It should be mentioned that Sri Lanka did not figure among the top ten in the comparison of reduction of under-five mortality in the period 1960 to 1985, reported earlier, because the expansion of public delivery of education, health care and free food took place in Sri Lanka in an earlier period. |
 | | Free food distribution and massive expansion of public health facilities were both initiated in Sri Lanka in the 194Os, and the death rate in Sri Lanka fell from 2O.6 per thousand to 8.6 per thousand between 194O and 1960. |
 | | See also N. Ram's paper in Drèze and Sen, The Political Economy of Hunger, and Article 19, Starving in Silence: A Report on Famine and Censorship (London: Article 19 International Centre on Censorship, 1990), with contributions by Frances D'Souza, Alex de Waal, and an anonymous Chinese scholar. |
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