Poverty and famines: an essay on entitlement and deprivation / by Amartya Sen

By:

Sen, Amartya

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: OUP, 2011. New Delhi:Description: ix, 257 pISBN:

9780195649543

Subject(s):

Poverty

DDC classification:

363.8 SEN-P

Contents:

1.Poverty and entitlements-- 2.Concepts of poverty-- 3.Poverty : Identification and aggregation-- 4.Starvation and famines-- 5.The entitlement approach-- 6.The great Bengal famine -- 7.The Ethiopian famines -- 8.Drought and famine in the sahel-- 9.Famine in Bangladesh-- 10.Entitlements and deprivation.

Summary: This book focuses on the causes of starvation in general and famines in particular. The traditional analysis of famines is shown to be fundamentally defective, and the author develops an alternative analysis

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1.Poverty and entitlements--
2.Concepts of poverty--
3.Poverty : Identification and aggregation--
4.Starvation and famines--
5.The entitlement approach--
6.The great Bengal famine --
7.The Ethiopian famines --
8.Drought and famine in the sahel--
9.Famine in Bangladesh--
10.Entitlements and deprivation.

This book focuses on the causes of starvation in general and famines in particular. The traditional analysis of famines is shown to be fundamentally defective, and the author develops an alternative analysis

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