Stephan Haggard

Stephan Haggard is professor at the graduate school of international relations and Pacific studies at the University of California, San Diego, and a visiting fellow at the Institute for International Economics.

North Korea: the next famine

Amid the extensive reportage and analysis of the world's food insecurity in the first few months of 2008, the desperate circumstances of people in North Korea have been

By Marcus Noland, Stephan Haggard and Erik Weeks

/ 20 May 2008

Famine in North Korea: markets, aid and reform

During the 1990s, perhaps one million people, or roughly 5% of the North Korean populace, died in a famine. Social trauma of this magnitude is mercifully rare, but its effects

By Marcus Noland and Stephan Haggard

/ 2 May 2007