An inquiry into well-being and destitution /
Dealing comprehensively with the problem of poverty and undernourishment, this book addresses the debate over methods of estimating their incidence. It is an analytical and empirical inquiry into human well-being and the phenomenon of destitution as it occurs among rural populations of poor countrie...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford : New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
1993.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. The Commodity Basis of Well-Being
- 2. Political Morality and the State
- 3. The Objects of Social Contracts
- 4. Well-Being: From Theory to Measurement
- 5. The Realization of Well-Being
- 6. Resource Allocation Mechanisms
- *6.[2nd]. Public Goods and Common-Property Resources
- 7. Decentralization and Central Guidance
- *7.[2nd]. Real National Income as a Measure of General Well-Being
- 8. Uncertainty, Insurance, and Social Norms
- 9. Land, Labour, Savings, and Credit
- *9.[2nd]. Households and Credit Constraints
- 10. Poverty and the Environmental Resource Base
- *10.[2nd]. Net National Product in a Dynamic Economy
- 11. Food, Care, and Work: The Household as an Allocation Mechanism
- *11.[2nd]. Axiomatic Bargaining Theory
- 12. Fertility and Resources: The Household as a Reproductive Unit
- *12.[2nd]. Strategic Complementarities in Fertility Decisions
- 13. Population and Savings: Normative Considerations
- *13.[2nd]. Classical Utilitarianism in a Limited World.
- 14. Food Needs and Work Capacity
- 15. Adaptation to Undernourishment
- 16. Inequality, Malnutrition, and the Disfranchised
- *16.[2nd]. Analysis of Allocation Mechanisms When Nutrition Affects Productivity
- 17. Incentives and Development Policies.