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Food Entitlement and Economic Chains
Amartya Sen,L.F. Newman +1 more
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The article was published on 1990-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 15 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Entitlement (fair division).read more
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Out-of-pocket health expenditure and debt in poor households: evidence from Cambodia.
TL;DR: This study aims to document how out‐of‐pocket health expenditure can lead to debt in a poor rural area in Cambodia.
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The Economic Contributions of Amartya Sen
Steven Pressman,Gale Summerfield +1 more
TL;DR: The major economic contributions of Amartya Sen fall into three main areas: a philosophical critique of traditional economic assumptions, an attempt to build a more realistic economic science based on the notion of entitlements and human capabilities, and a long series of practical contributions to welfare economics.
Assessing Vulnerabilities: Integrating Information about Driving Forces that Affect Risks and Resilience in Fishing Communities
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the utility of considering vulnerability in the assessment of potential impacts from fisheries management measures and discuss how a consideration of vulnerability can inform managers by presenting results from recent empirical work related to marine fisheries.
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“That Coming Storm”: The Irish Poor Law, Colonial Biopolitics, and the Great Famine
TL;DR: The potato blight, Phythophthora infestans, was first recorded in Dublin in August 1845, and over the next five years the Irish potato harvest failed four times, triggering mass hunger and disease on a magnitude the European continent had not endured for centuries as mentioned in this paper.
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Life Moving Forward: Soviet Karelia in the Letters & Memoirs of Finnish North Americans
TL;DR: This article examined letters written by Finnish North Americans in Karelia to friends and family remaining in Canada and the United States, as well as memoirs and retrospective letter collections that look back on life in karelia in the 1930s.