Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlements and Deprivation

Author(s)
Sen, A.
Publication language
English
Date published
01 Jan 1982
Type
Books
Keywords
Food and nutrition, Food security
Link
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Poverty-Famines-Essay-Entitlement-Deprivation/dp/0198284…

This book focuses on the causes of starvation in general and famines in particular. The traditional analysis of famines is shown to be fundamentally defective, and the author develops an alternative analysis.