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9780198860174

Political Economy of Hunger Volume 1 Entitlement and Wellbeing

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  • ISBN13:

    9780198860174

  • ISBN10:

    019886017X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2020-03-27
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Author Biography


Jean Dr?ze, Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, Ranchi University, India,Amartya Sen, Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Harvard University

Jean Dr?ze, development economist, has taught at the London School of Economics and the Delhi School of Economics and is currently Visiting Professor at Ranchi University. He has made wide-ranging contributions to development economics and public policy, with special reference to India. He is co-author (with Amartya Sen) of Hunger and Public Action (Oxford University Press, 1989), An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions (Penguin, 2013), and Sense and Solidarity (OUP: 2019).



Amartya Sen teaches economics and philosophy at Harvard University, and was previously Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. He has served as President of the American Economic Association, the Indian Economic Association, the International Economic Association, and the Econometric Society. His awards include the Bharat Ratna (India), Commandeur de la l?gion d'honneur (France), the National Humanities Medal (USA), Honorary Companion of Honour (UK), Ordem Nacional do M?rito Cient?fico (Brazil), and the Nobel Prize in Economics.

Table of Contents


1. Introduction, Jean Dr?ze and Amartya Sen
2. Food, Economics, and Entitlements, Amartya Sen
3. Global Food Balances and Individual Hunger: Three Themes in an Entitlements Based Approach, S. M. Ravi Kanbur
4. The Politics of Hunger and Entitlement, Rehman Sobhan
5. Chronic Hunger in the World: Impact of International Policies, Kirit S. Parikh
6. An Independent Press and Anti Hunger Strategies: The Indian Experience, N. Ram
7. Adapting to Undernourishment: The Biological Evidence and its Implications, Partha Dasgupta and Debraj Ray
8. Nutrition and the Economics of Food: Implications of Some Recent Controversies, S. R. Osmani
9. Food and Standard of Living: An Analysis Based on Sri Lankan Data, Sudhir Anand and Christopher Harris
10. The Intrafamily Distribution of Hunger in South Asia, Barbara Harriss
11. Rural Women and Food Production in Sub Saharan Africa, Ann Whitehead

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