Answer to Question #124567 in Economics for Joseph Danso

Question

Why does the existence of famine and malnutrition considered a distributional problem and not one of the food shortages?

Answer 1

The existence of famine and malnutrition is considered a distributional problem and not one of the food shortages, because usually the reasons for them are not scarcity of food, but inequality of distribution, government policy, war, population imbalance etc.