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Poverty and famines : an essay on entitlement and deprivation

Author: Amartya Kumar Sen
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1982, ©1981.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : Repr. with correctionsView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Amartya Kumar Sen
ISBN: 0198284632 9780198284635 0198284268 9780198284260
OCLC Number: 10362534
Notes: Includes indexes.
Description: ix, 257 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents: Poverty and entitlements --
Concepts of poverty --
Poverty: identification and aggregation --
Starvation and famines --
The entitlement approach --
The great Bengal famine --
The Ethiopian famines --
Drought and famine in the Sahel --
Famine in Bangladesh --
Entitlements and deprivation --
Appendices: exchange entitlement --
Appendices: illustrative models of exchange entitlement --
Appendices: measurement of poverty --
Appendices: famine mortality: a case study.
Responsibility: Amartya Sen.

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