The Amartya Sen and Jean Dreze Omnibus Comprising Poverty and Famines; Hunger and Public Action; India : Economic Development and Social Opportunity

Rootsomnibus consists of three outstanding works by two of the world's finest development economists. Amartya Sen and Jean Dreze explore the economic, social, and Political Roots of deprivation in the modern world, and the role of public action in addressing this problem.

Poverty and Famines, first published in 1981, is Sen's classic exposition of the 'entitlement approach' to the analysis of hunger and deprivation. This approach focuses on the ability of a person to acquire food and other relevant Commodities within the prevailing economic, social and Legal arrangements. The implications of this approach are illustrated through detailed case studies.

In Hunger and Public Action, the focus shifts from the causation of hunger and Famines to their prevention. The central theme here is that public action has a crucial role to Play in eradicating famines as well as endemic hunger. This Study also explores related issues such as the strategy of famine prevention, the connections between economic growth and public support, class and Gender conflicts, and the role of adversarial politics.

India: Economic Development and Social Opportunity builds on this conceptual Framework to discuss India's achievements and failures since independence. The importance of basic Education in development is a recurrent theme of this study. The Authors also stress the complementarities between public action and the market mechanism, much neglected in the ongoing debate on 'liberalization'.

Taken together, these three studies form a uniquely rich Investigation of the causes and Remedies of deprivation in the modern world. Written in an accessible style, this collection is priority reading for all those who are interested in the human Face of development.

Amartya Sen is Master, Trinity College, Cambridge. He has held prestigious Academic positions at the Delhi School of Economics, the London School of Economics, Oxford University and Harvard University. He Won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998.

Jean Dreze is Visiting Professor, Centre for Development Economics at the Delhi, School of Economics. He has taught at the London School of Economics and made distinguished contributions to development economics, public economics and related subjects..

Part I :

1. Poverty and Entitlements
2. Concepts of Poverty
3. Poverty
4. Identification and Aggregation Starvation and Famines
5. The Entitlement Approach
6. The Great Bengal Famine
7. The Ethiopian Famines
8. Drought and Famine in the Sahel
9. Famine in Bangladesh
10. Entitlements and Deprivation

Part II :

List of Figures
List of Tables

Part A : HUNGER IN THE MODERN World :
I. INTRODUCTION :
1. Past and Present
2. Famine and Chronic Undernourishment
3. Some Elementary Concepts
4. Public Action for Social Security

II. ENTITLEMENT AND DEPRIVATION :
1. Deprivation and the Law
2. Entitlement Failures and Economic Analysis
3. Availability, Command and Occupations
4. The 'Food Crisis' in Sub-Saharan Africa

III. Nutrition AND CAPABILITY :
1. World Hunger : How Much?
2. food Deprivation and Undernourishment
3. Poverty and basic Capabilities

IV. SOCIETY, CLASS AND Gender :
1. Are Famines Natural Phenomena?
2. Society and Cooperative Conflicts
3. Female Deprivation and Gender Bias
4. Famine Mortality and Gender Divisions
5. Gender and Cooperative Conflicts
6. Protection, Promotion and Social Security

Part B : FAMINES :
V. FAMINES AND SOCIAL RESPONSE :
1. Famine Prevention and Entitlement Protection
2. African Challenge and International Perception
3. Informal Security Systems and Concerted Action
4. Aspects of Traditional Response
5. Early Warning and Early Action

VI. FAMINES, Markets AND INTERVENTION :
1. The Strategy of Direct Delivery
2. Availability, Prices and Entitlements
3. Private Trade and Famine Vulnerability
4. Speculation, Hoarding and Public Distribution
5. Cash Support
6. An Adequate Plurality

VII. STRATEGIES OF ENTITLEMENT PROTECTION :
1. Non-exclusion, Targeting and Selection
2. Alternative Selection Mechanisms
3. Feeding and Family
4. Employment and Entitlement
5. A Concluding Remark

VIII. EXPERIENCES AND LESSONS :
1. The Indian Experience
2. A Case-Study : The Maharashtra Drought of 1970-1973
3. Some African Successes
4. Lessons from African Successes

Part C : UNDERNUTRITION AND DEPRIVATION :
IX. PRODUCTION, ENTITLEMENTS AND NUTRITION :
1. Introduction
2. Food Self-Sufficiency?
3. Food Production and Diversification
4. Industrialization and the Long Run
5. Cash Crops : Problems and Opportunities
6. From Food Entitlements to Nutritional Capabilities

X. ECONOMIC GROWTH AND PUBLIC SUPPORT :
1. Incomes and Achievements
2. Alternative Strategies : Growth-Mediated Security and Support-Led Security
3. Economic Growth and Public Support : Interconnections and Contrasts
4. Growth-Mediated Security and Unaimed Opulence
5. Opulence and Public Provisioning
6. Growth-Mediated Security : The Case of South Korea
7. Support-Led Security and Equivalent Growth

XI. China AND India :
1. Is China Ahead?
2. What Put China Ahead?
3. The Chinese Famine and the Indian Contrast
4. Chinese Economic Reforms : Opulence and Support
5. China, India and Kerala

XII. EXPERIENCES OF DIRECT SUPPORT :
1. Introduction
2. Sri Lanka
3. Chile
4. Costa Rica
5. Concluding Remarks

Part D : HUNGER AND PUBLIC ACTION :
XIII. THE ECONOMY, THE State AND THE PUBLIC :
1. Against the Current
2. Famines and Undernutrition
3. Famine Prevention
4. Eliminating Endemic Deprivation
5. Food Production, Distribution and Prices
6. International Cooperation and Conflict
7. Public Action and the Public

Part III :

List Figures and Tables

I. INTRODUCTION :
1. India Since Independence
2. On Learning from Others
3. Social Opportunity and Public Policy

II. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL OPPORTUNITY :
1. Development, Freedom and Opportunities
2. On Education and Health
3. The Government, the State and the Market
4. Interdependence between Markets and Governance
5. Market-Excluding and Market-Complementary Interventions
6. A Positive Focus

III. INDIA IN Comparative PERSPECTIVE :
1. India and the World
2. Lessons from other Countries
3. East Asia and Growth-Mediated Progress
4. Human Capital and More basic Values
5. Internal Diversities
6. Studying Indian States

IV. INDIA AND CHINA :
1. Perceptions of China
2. Conditions of Life and Death
3. Contrasts in basic Education
4. Pre-Reform Achievements
5. Post-Reform Records
6. Pre-Reform and Post-Reform Performances
7. Authoritarianism, Famines and Vulnerability
8. Coercion, Population and Fertility
9. The Real Lessons for India from China

V. PUBLIC ACTION AND SOCIAL INEQUALITY :
1. The Public and its Role
2. The REACH of Inequalities
3. Social Inequality and Economic Reform
4. Basic Equality, Social Security and Health Cat
5. Local Governance and Social Reform

VI. BASIC EDUCATION AS A Political ISSUE :
1. Education and Social Change
2. The State of School Education
3. Biases and Confounded Strategies
4. The Role of Expenditure
5. Priorities and Challenges
6. Provision, Utilization and Compulsion
7. On Female Education
8. Education and Political Action

VII. GENDER INEQUALITY AND WOMEN'S AGENCY :
1. Female Deprivation and Missing Women
2. On the Female-Male Ratio
3. Women's Agency and Child Survival
4. Fertility and Women's Emancipation
5. Widowhood and Gender Relations
6. Gender Equality and Social Progress

VIII. WELL BEYOND LIBERALIZATION :
1. What is the Cage?
2. People as Ends and as Means
3. Radical Needs and Moderate Reforms
4. Governance and Public Action
5. Women's Agency and Social Change
6. Comparative Perspectives
7. A Concluding Remark