Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and DeprivationOUP Oxford, 20.01.1983 - 272 Seiten 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. |
Inhalt
| 1 | |
2 Concepts of Poverty | 9 |
Identification and Aggregation | 24 |
4 Starvation and Famines | 39 |
5 The Entitlement Approach | 45 |
6 The Great Bengal Famine | 52 |
7 The Ethiopian Famines | 86 |
8 Drought and Famine in the Sahel | 113 |
9 Famine in Bangladesh | 131 |
10 Entitlements and Deprivation | 154 |
Appendices | 167 |
| 217 | |
| 250 | |
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Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation Amartya Sen Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1982 |
Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation Amartya Sen Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1982 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
affected aggregate agricultural labourers Alamgir analysis animal loss animals Appendix average Bangladesh Bengal famine Calcutta calories cent Chapter commodities concept of poverty consumption contrast crop decline destitution Development distribution districts drought economic employment entitlement approach entitlement failure entitlement relations epidemics estimates Ethiopian famine excess mortality exchange entitlement exchange entitlement mapping exchange rate fact FAD approach Famine Inquiry Commission famine mortality famine of 1943 figures food availability food output food supply foodgrains Gebre-Medhin Ghosh Gini coefficient given grain Harerghe harvest important income inequality Inquiry Commission 1945a labour power langarkhanas Mansergh measurement of poverty Mymensingh normal nutritional occupation Ogaden over-all ownership pastoralist peasant person poor population poverty gap poverty line poverty measure pre-famine presented problem production proportion Rangpur reduced relative deprivation relief camps rural household Sahelian countries short-fall shortage starvation Sylhet Table trade transfer axiom vis-à-vis wage West Bengal wheat Wollo