Nobel laureate Amartya Sen is renowned for his 'entitlement approach' to poverty and famine. He argued that starvation and poverty are not merely due to a lack of food or resources but rather due to people's lack of 'entitlement' – the ability to access food and other necessities through production, trade, labour, or transfers. He demonstrated how changes in entitlements can lead to famine even when overall food availability doesn't significantly decrease.
They defined the poverty line based on the expenditure needed to achieve a minimum caloric intake (2250 calories per person per day) and estimated the proportion of the population below this line using NSS data on household consumption expenditure. Their work was pioneering in using per capita consumption expenditure as a criterion for defining and measuring poverty in India. 351. Name, the economist who related 'poverty' with the concept of 'entitlement':
Asked in OPSC CS Prelims 2015 · Topic: Nature of Indian Economy (Poverty and Income Inequality)
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