Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation

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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. Contents 1 Poverty and Entitlements 2 Concepts of Poverty 3 Poverty: Identification and Aggregation 4 Starvation and Famines 5 The Entitlement Approach 6 The Great Bengal Famine 7 The Ethiopian Famines 8 Drought and Famine in the Sahel 9 Famine in Bangladesh 10 Entitlements and Deprivation Appendices A: Exchange Entitlement B: Illustrative Models of Exchange Entitlement C: Measurement of Poverty D: Famine Mortality: A Case Study Bibliography Indexes Subject Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U Name Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Y Z