Browsing by Author "Sen, Amartya"

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    IHD foundation day lecture: children and humen rights
    (2022) Sen, Amartya
    The framework of human rights can be usefully applied to addressing a number of deprivations that children face in society. The importance of human rights relates to the significance of the freedoms that form the subject matters of rights-freedom from hunger and freedom from es-capable mortality.The discipline of human rights has much to offer in systematizing the perfect and imperfect obligations that society has towards children.Human rights generate reasons for action for agents who can help in safeguarding and promoting the interest of children
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    Oxford bulletin of economics and statistics: Public action and the quality of life in developing countries
    (1981) Sen, Amartya
    There is some evidence in favour of the view that there has been an accentuation of poverty in many parts of the world in the last few decades. However there has been a consistent improvement in the commonly identified parameters of quality of life, e.g. longevity and literacy in practically every country in the world. But this progress has been sharply uneven with widely varying magnitudes of change among the different countries.