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Life Expectancy and Inequality: Some Conceptual Issues
Amartya Sen,P. Bardhan +1 more
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This article is published in Development and Change.The article was published on 1993-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 8 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Life expectancy & Inequality.read more
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The Income Component of the Human Development Index
Sudhir Anand,Amartya Sen +1 more
TL;DR: The Human Development Reports of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) as discussed by the authors have been used to take on the task of incorporating the view of human beings as ends in the accounting and assessment of development.
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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.
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SOCIAL RETURNS FROM DRINKING WATER, SANITATION AND HYGIENE EDUCATION A Case Study of Two Coastal Villages in Kerala
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used Sen's commodities and capabilities approach to estimate the social returns from investing in water supply, sanitation and hygiene education (WATSANGENE) from the UNICEF model.
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Re-Defining Sustainable Human Development to Integrate Sustainability and Human Development Goals
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a set of indicators and the conditions for sustainable human development (SHD), and the numerical values of the SHD conditions indicate if higher human development is achieved with sustainable means.
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The Human Development Index and Its Evolution
TL;DR: In this article, past criticisms of the Human Development Index (HDI) and the responses of the human development report office (HDRO) over 25 years are analyzed, and a review of these criticisms and responses chronologically clarifies how the former influenced the latter, demonstrating the process of making explicit the value judgement behind the index.