Hunger and Public Action (Häftad)
avJean Dreze, Amartya K. Sen
ISBN: 9780198283652 - UTGIVEN: 199101This study was well-received and widely discussed when it appeared in hardback in 1990. It is devoted to analysis of the enduring problem of hunger in the modern world, and of the role that public action can play in countering it. The book is divided into four parts. The first attempts to provide [...]
An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions (Inbunden)
avJean Dreze, Amartya Sen
ISBN: 9780691160795 - UTGIVEN: 201308When 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 econo[...]
An Uncertain Glory (Inbunden)
avJean Dreze, Amartya Sen
ISBN: 9781846147616 - UTGIVEN: 201307From two of India's leading economists, Jean Dreze (Hunger and Public Action) and Nobel Prize-winner Amartya Sen (The Idea of Justice), An Uncertain Glory is a passionate, considered argument for the need for a greater understanding of inequalities in India, despite economic development. When India [...]
