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Amartya Sen
Researcher at Harvard University
Publications - 696
Citations - 145473
Amartya Sen is an academic researcher from Harvard University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poverty & Politics. The author has an hindex of 149, co-authored 689 publications receiving 141907 citations. Previous affiliations of Amartya Sen include Trinity College, Dublin & University of Chicago.
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Poverty and Famines. An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation.
Mick Moore,Amartya Sen +1 more
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Choice, Welfare and Measurement
TL;DR: Sen's contributions have been collected from many journals in the fields of economics and public affairs and from books that were published between 1966 and 1980 as discussed by the authors and are distributed among five topical sections: Choice and Preference, Preference Aggregation, Welfare Comparisons and Social Choice, Non-utility Information, and Social Measurement.
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Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation
TL;DR: In this article, the causes of starvation in general and famines in particular are investigated, and the traditional analysis of famines is shown to be fundamentally defective, and an alternative analysis is developed.
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India: Economic Development and Social Opportunity
Jean Drèze,Amartya Sen +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a comparative study of China and India in relation to basic education as a political issue and gender inequality and women's agency in the context of economic development through social opportunity.
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Poor, Relatively Speaking
TL;DR: This paper argued that the contrast between the absolute and the relative features has often been confused, and that a more general question about ascertaining the absolute standard of living lies at the root of the difficulty.