Amartya Sen - Why Are All Those Women Missing?

Amartya Sen

Why are all those women missing?

Amartya Sen

Born in 1933, India.

The first Indian to win the Nobel Prize for economics in 1998.

Is credited with making inroads into the assessment of poverty and the evaluation of inequality-making possible better social welfare comparisons-and changing the way governments prevent and combat famines.

Economic unfreedom, in the form of extreme poverty, can make a person a helpless prey in the violation of other kinds of freedom.

Social choice theory-preoccupied with the link between individual values and collective choice.

Proposed new measure of poverty.

Human Development report.

Broke new ground in the study of famines.

Missing women; inequality.

Social welfare/social progress.

Countries missing millions of women

Female pop. Expected female pop. Missing women

China 599.4 654.3 54.9

India 473.9 517.7 43.7

Pakistan 63.4 69.8 6.5

Bangladesh 62.1 65.0 2.9

Indonesia 102.0 104.0 2.0

Philippines 37.3 38.8 1.5

Turkey 31.4 32.8 1.4

Writings

"Development as Freedom" 1999: "development should be seen as a process of expanding the real freedoms that people enjoy; development requires the removal of major sources of unfreedom-poverty, tyranny, poor economic opportunities, systematic social deprivation, neglect of public facilities, as well as intolerance or over activity of repressive traits".

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