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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dasgupta, Partha
Autor Corporativo: Oxford University Press
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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.