
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


How do you measure a famine? Following the UN’s recent announcement that famine conditions have ended in Somalia, More or Less explores what the definition of a famine is – and how definite a definition it is. Tim Harford hears from Grainne Moloney, head of the UN’s Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit and Professor Stephen Devereux from the Institute of Development Studies. Also in the programme: Muhammed Ali’s boxing trainer, Angelo Dundee, was arguably one of sport’s greatest behind-the-scenes figures. But did he really deliberately tear Ali’s boxing glove to win the star crucial recovery time in his 1963 fight against Sir Henry Cooper? Tim Harford gets out his stopwatch for a simple exercise in counting. This programme was originally broadcast on the BBC World Service.
By BBC Radio 44.7
772772 ratings
How do you measure a famine? Following the UN’s recent announcement that famine conditions have ended in Somalia, More or Less explores what the definition of a famine is – and how definite a definition it is. Tim Harford hears from Grainne Moloney, head of the UN’s Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit and Professor Stephen Devereux from the Institute of Development Studies. Also in the programme: Muhammed Ali’s boxing trainer, Angelo Dundee, was arguably one of sport’s greatest behind-the-scenes figures. But did he really deliberately tear Ali’s boxing glove to win the star crucial recovery time in his 1963 fight against Sir Henry Cooper? Tim Harford gets out his stopwatch for a simple exercise in counting. This programme was originally broadcast on the BBC World Service.

7,665 Listeners

374 Listeners

516 Listeners

1,047 Listeners

294 Listeners

5,530 Listeners

2,104 Listeners

1,923 Listeners

39 Listeners

393 Listeners

411 Listeners

412 Listeners

758 Listeners

215 Listeners

56 Listeners

696 Listeners

364 Listeners

233 Listeners

137 Listeners

313 Listeners

3,169 Listeners

729 Listeners

65 Listeners

821 Listeners

3,339 Listeners

551 Listeners

782 Listeners

645 Listeners

384 Listeners

237 Listeners

57 Listeners

77 Listeners

74 Listeners