Amartya Sen

1. Growth Vs. development: Growth • Growth is quantitative term, which is concerned with the material and financial aspect i.e. income of the individual. It is measured in per Capita income and GDP. • Growth is Natural term, by certain time it will happen without any forces. • Growth of an economy means increase in production for market or any institution. • Growth may lead to development. But is not necessary. • Growth is concerned with increase in the economy's output. Development •…

Difference of opinions arise from so many directions: politically, religious or because language. I totally agree with Amartya Sen when she said on her article A World Not Neatly Divided: “dividing the world into discrete civilizations is not just crude. It propels us into the absurd belief that this partitioning is natural and necessary and must overwhelm all other ways of…

In Tina Rosenberg’s article, “The Taint of the Greased Palm,” she writes about how her garbage man in Mexico demanded “a tip” each week because he was not paid enough to provide for his family. She acknowledged these kind of bribes as a normal part of her life, but she claimed that, “What people really need, of course, is a system that doesn’t require bribery to get things done” (Rosenberg 6). She suggests that if the government and other businesses in the formal economy pay their workers a…

In a Declaration of War against the Mexican Government, the author sees the good of society as hinging directly on the rights of the individual. As it is, the author reflects on Mexico’s past, it’s continuing battle throughout history, all towards a single goal of independence, a nation state where the people would rule. Indeed, throughout the document a strong emphasis placed upon the fact that the government should exist for the people, not as some dictatorial regime. Thus, the authors views…

Sens gives three main analytical approaches to why this is so. First, entitlements and capabilities or a lack of employment prevents these people from obtaining basic capabilities. Second, functioning’s or desired outcomes, there is no outcome for them…

I wrote about Amartya Sen’s capability approach and how Tufekci incorporates this approach stating that “a capacity approach means evaluating the movement’s collective ability to achieve social change.” (Tufekci, 2017, P. 195). In this essay, I also wrote about Emilie…

The prescribed reading extracted from M DA Freemans Lloyd’s introduction to Jurisprudence refers to the writings of Amartya Sen, an Indian economist and philosopher. Sen examines a number of questions that a theory of human rights must address and I found two of his answers particularly insightful. The first was to the question of how human rights are best promoted? To which Sen answered that human rights implementation can ‘go well beyond legislation and a theory of human rights cannot be…

Heather Dande Professor Ruget POL 379: Final Exam Section 1 1. Elections & democracy reduce the risk of violence (chap. 1) Answer: True and False Explanation: Collier found that the effect of elections and democracy on violence in poor and rich countries had radically different outcomes (Collier, 20). On one hand, this is true because the data collected confirmed that in middle-income level countries, democracy reduced the risk of political violence. On the other hand, this is false because in…

The Scarcity Fallacy World hunger is a topic that has been the focal point of many economists and whether or not we have the means of feeding the entire human population. The general knowledge is that world hunger exists mainly because of natural disasters, increase in population, and not being able to produce enough food. Additional problems such as environment crises and global warming result in furthering the idea of food scarcity. If that is the case, then hunger exists simply because there…

1.3.1. From Welfare to Empowerment Approach in Poverty Conceptualisation: - Having conceptualized poverty it is important to note two distinctions in understanding poverty concepts. The first is between extensive and intensive growth. Extensive growth has occurred for millennia in most parts of the world with the aggregate output rising, with the expansion of the population that has taken place over the period of time. Per capita income was however relatively low and stagnant during this phase.…