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Amartya Sen
About Sen
About Amartya Sen
• Choice of Techniques
• Collective Choice and Social Welfare
• Growth Economics
• Employment, Technology, and Development
• Poverty and Famines
• Choice, Welfare and Measurement
• Resources, Values and Development,
• Commodities and Capabilities,
• The Standard of Living,
Contd…
• Capital-Labour ratio.
• What is poverty?
• Poverty is social phenomenon in which a
section of society is unable to fulfill even its
basic necessities of life..
• Starvation statements translate readily
into statements of ownership of food by
persons.
• Eg. Ownership of Loaf of Bread
Entitlement
What is Entitlement?
It is ownership or right to hold any thing be it
any Asset, Food, money, Etc
Entitlement relations typically include the
following:
– trade- based entitlement
– production- based entitlement
– own- labor entitlement
– inheritance and transfer entitlement
Poverty level Across the world
Structural Adjustment - Causes of poverty