On the other hand, China achieved on average more than 9 percent growth for almost four decades and lifted over 800 million ...

Peter Bauer, a pioneer of development economics, is an incisive thinker whose work continues to influence fields from political science to history to anthropology. As Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen writes ...

Samantha Brennan, 'Feminist Ethics and Everyday Inequalities' Hypatia 24, 2009; Derek Parfit, 'Equality and Priority' Ratio 10, 1997; Ronald Dworkin, Sovereign Virtue: the Theory and Practice of ...

Amartya Sen was awarded the Nobel Memorial ... Although his primary academic appointments have been mostly in economics, Sen is also an important and influential social theorist and philosopher. His ...

Climate change affects women’s health, livelihoods and security disproportionately because of gender inequality and ...

Most notable is Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen (his classic Development as Freedom was published almost two decades ago), and a younger generation of writers such as Duncan Green of Oxfam in his book ...

AMARTYA SEN is Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University and a recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics. Earlier in his career, he was the ...

Dr Amartya Sen, the Nobel laureate economist known worldwide for his pioneering work on welfare economics, poverty, and human ...

Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen considers the alternatives. Campaigns against pollution that causes climate change often focus on reducing energy usage, when poor countries desperately need ...

He took on the Herculean task of lifting India from ‘the mud and filth’ left behind by the British, and built a modern, ...