For the billion or so people around the world who live on the equivalent of a dollar a day, it could mean stark hunger, a price-induced famine.

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If some are making so much money while consumers world wide battle hunger or obesity, disease and famine, it would seem the system is in desperate need of reform.

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The award was doubly welcome because Sen, unlike many previous winners who focused on ever-more mathematical refinements of free market dogma, has devoted his career to studying poverty and hunger, and on the role democracy plays in preventing famine.

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The poor and working class in America may indeed have hunger issues, but they are not starving the way that the poor of famine-swept Somalia are starving.

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