Poverty and Famines An Essay on Entitlement

The main focus of this book is on the causation of starvation in general and of famines in particular. The author develops the alternative method of analysis--the 'entitlement approach'--concentrating on ownership and exchange, not on food supply. The book also provides a general analysis of the characterization and measurement of poverty. Various approaches used in economics, sociology, and political theory are critically examined. The predominance of distributional issues, including distribution between different occupation groups, links up the problem of conceptualizing poverty with that of analyzing starvation.

Preface	p. vii
Poverty and Entitlements	p. 1
Concepts of Poverty	p. 9
Poverty: Identification and Aggregation	p. 24
Starvation and Famines	p. 39
The Entitlement Approach	p. 45
The Great Bengal Famine	p. 52
The Ethiopian Famine	p. 86
Drought and Famine in the Sahel	p. 113
Famine in Bangladesh	p. 131
Entitlements and Deprivation	p. 154
Exchange Entitlement	p. 167
Illustrative Models of Exchange Entitlement	p. 174
Measurement of Poverty	p. 185
Famine Mortality: a Case Study	p. 195
Bibliography	p. 217
Subject Index	p. 250
Name Indek	p. 252
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Poverty and Famines An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation

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