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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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Development as Freedom
TL;DR: In this article, Amartya Sen explains how in a world of unprecedented increase in overall opulence millions of people living in the Third World are still unfree, even if they are not technically slaves, they are denied elementary freedoms and remain imprisoned in one way or another by economic poverty, social deprivation, political tyranny or cultural authoritarianism.
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Elements of a Theory of Human Rights
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the elements of a theory of human rights, which see them as pronouncements in social ethics, sustainable by open public reasoning, and examine whether legislation is the pre-eminent, or even a necessary, route through which human rights can be expressed.
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Hunger and Public Action
Jean Drèze,Amartya Sen +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a coherent perspective on the complex nutritional, economic, social and political issues involved in the causation of hunger and deprivation, and provide an integrated view of the role of public action in eliminating hunger.
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More Than 100 Million Women Are Missing
TL;DR: In the United States, the proportion of women is 6.4 percent, while in the present and the last lower houses of the Indian Parliament, women's proportions have been respectively 5.3 and 7.9 percent as mentioned in this paper.