Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation

Framsida
OUP Oxford, 1982 - 257 sidor
"The main focus of this book is on the causation of starvation in general and of famines in particular. The author develops the alternative method of analysis--the 'entitlement approach'--concentrating on ownership and exchange, not on food supply. The book also provides a general analysis of the characterization and measurement of poverty. Various approaches used in economics, sociology, and political theory are critically examined. The predominance of distributional issues, including distribution between different occupation groups, links up the problem of conceptualizing poverty with that of analyzing starvation." -- Publisher.
 

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Poverty and Entitlements
11
Concepts of Poverty
13
Identification and Aggregation
31
Starvation and Famines
43
The Great Bengal Famine
63
+ 2 + 381
69
Drought and Famine in the Sahel
127
Famine in Bangladesh
137
Entitlements and Deprivation
154
A Exchange Entitlement
167
B Illustrative Models of Exchange Entitlement
174
Measurement of Poverty
185
A Case Study
195
BIBLIOGRAPHY
252
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Om författaren (1982)

Amartya Sen is at Harvard University.

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