Showing papers by "Amartya Sen published in 2013"
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01 Jan 2013
TL;DR: Dreze and Sen as discussed by the authors argue that India's main problems lie in the lack of attention paid to the essential needs of the people, especially of the poor, and often of women.
Abstract: When India became independent in 1947 after two centuries of colonial rule, it immediately adopted a firmly democratic political system, with multiple parties, freedom of speech, and extensive political rights The famines of the British era disappeared, and steady economic growth replaced the economic stagnation of the Raj The growth of the Indian economy quickened further over the last three decades and became the second fastest among large economies Despite a recent dip, it is still one of the highest in the world
Maintaining rapid as well as environmentally sustainable growth remains an important and achievable goal for India In An Uncertain Glory, two of India's leading economists argue that the country's main problems lie in the lack of attention paid to the essential needs of the people, especially of the poor, and often of women There have been major failures both to foster participatory growth and to make good use of the public resources generated by economic growth to enhance people's living conditions There is also a continued inadequacy of social services such as schooling and medical care as well as of physical services such as safe water, electricity, drainage, transportation, and sanitation In the long run, even the feasibility of high economic growth is threatened by the underdevelopment of social and physical infrastructure and the neglect of human capabilities, in contrast with the Asian approach of simultaneous pursuit of economic growth and human development, as pioneered by Japan, South Korea, and China
In a democratic system, which India has great reason to value, addressing these failures requires not only significant policy rethinking by the government, but also a clearer public understanding of the abysmal extent of social and economic deprivations in the country The deep inequalities in Indian society tend to constrict public discussion, confining it largely to the lives and concerns of the relatively affluent Dreze and Sen present a powerful analysis of these deprivations and inequalities as well as the possibility of change through democratic practice
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TL;DR: The Brundtland Commission as mentioned in this paper highlighted the importance of intergenerational justice while maintaining a concern for the poor of each generation and shifted the focus away from resources to human beings.
Abstract: The idea of ‘sustainability’ received serious attention in the so-called Brundtland Commission Report that has many attractive features. In particular, it highlighted the importance of intergenerational justice while maintaining a concern for the poor of each generation and shifted the focus away from resources to human beings. I argue that this way of understanding sustainability, while a great improvement, is still incomplete. There are important grounds for favouring a freedom-oriented view, focusing on crucial freedoms that people have reason to value. Human freedoms include the fulfilment of needs, but also the liberty to define and pursue our own goals, objectives and commitments, no matter how they link with our own particular needs. Human beings are reflective creatures and are able to reason about and decide what they would like to happen, rather than being compellingly led by their own needs—biological or social. A fuller concept of sustainability has to aim at sustaining human freedoms, rather ...
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Book•
01 Jan 2013
TL;DR: In this paper, the urban as a socio-spatial unit of collective consumption and as a cultural form of the urban question are discussed. But the focus is not on the specificity of urban spaces, but on the spatial unit of consumption.
Abstract: Preface 1. Social theory, capitalism and the urban question 2. The urban as an ecological community 3. The urban as a cultural form 4. The urban as a socio-spatial system 5. The urban as ideology 6. The urban as a spatial unit of collective consumption 7. Political economy and the urban question, With John Lloyd 8. On the specificity of the urban
9 citations
Journal Article•
TL;DR: Ciertos analistas han sugerido que el desarrollo, visto el modo en que ha been perseguido durante los ultimos cincuenta anos, ha been concebido de manera insatisfactoria y definido restrictivamente as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Ciertos analistas han sugerido que el desarrollo, visto el modo en que ha sido perseguido durante los ultimos cincuenta anos, ha sido concebido de manera insatisfactoria y definido restrictivamente. ?Cuales son los deficit en la agenda de las politicas de desarrollo que ha tratado usted de senalar? ?Por que esos?
8 citations
TL;DR: The meeting on global justice in the spring of 2011 in San Diego, California, was quite wonderful. It was skillfully planned, with much forethought and imagination, by Fonna Forman and Gerry Mackie as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The meeting on global justice in the spring of 2011 in San Diego, California, was quite wonderful. It was skillfully planned, with much forethought and imagination, by Fonna Forman and Gerry Mackie...
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Posted Content•
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a method to solve the problem of the "missing link" problem in the context of artificial neural networks (ANNs) and propose an approach to solve it.
Abstract: Comments on this paper can be found at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2209269