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traditional measurements of poverty (e.g., amount of income), a more multi-dimensional view of poverty - that includes poverty of reaching an old age - makes this less clear. This underscores Sen's idea that poverty and development should be seen as terms referring to someone's freedom. While higher incomes certainly allow someone to have more freedom to do what they want in life and to be living without serious material deprivation, Sen would argue that serious freedoms also include things like freedom to reach an old age. In achieving these freedoms, Sen says, measures should include things like employment opportunities, education, and access to health care.
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Sen notes, for example, that African Americans do not live to as old of ages as do people in regions of the world with comparatively smaller incomes. These regions include China, Costa Rica, and Kerala (an Indian state). While the African Americans would be seen as having lower poverty rates by
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concluded "In this book, Amartya Sen develops elegantly, compactly, and yet broadly the concept that economic development is in its nature an increase in freedom."
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covers immense territory, it is subtle and nuanced and its careful scholarship is manifest at every turn."
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Based on these ethical considerations, Sen argues that development cannot be reduced to simply increasing
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Sandbrook, Richard (December 2000). "Globalization and the limits of neoliberal development doctrine".
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A key observation in this book is that, "no famine has ever taken place in a functioning democracy."
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to coercive relations, and exclusion from economic choices and protections.
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Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
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is characterized by lack of at least one freedom (Sen uses the term
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freedom of opportunity, including freedom to access credit; and
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economic protection from abject poverty, including through
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Amartya Sen
International development
international development
Amartya Sen
Alfred A. Knopf
Nobel Prize in Economics
political freedoms
transparency
income supplements
unemployment relief
Poverty
vulnerability
basic incomes
Lars Osberg
Kenneth Arrow
Equality of autonomy
Human development theory
"The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1998"
Nobel Foundation
ISBN
9780191027246
"Development as Freedom"
Archived
ISBN
9780198297581
Development as freedom
ISBN
9780192893307
ISBN

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