Amartya Sen
Why are all those women missing?
Amartya Sen
Born in 1933, India.
The first Indian to win the Nobel Prize for economics in 1998.
Is credited with making inroads into the assessment of poverty and the evaluation of inequality-making possible better social welfare comparisons-and changing the way governments prevent and combat famines.
Economic unfreedom, in the form of extreme poverty, can make a person a helpless prey in the violation of other kinds of freedom.
Social choice theory-preoccupied with the link between individual values and collective choice.
Proposed new measure of poverty.
Human Development report.
Broke new ground in the study of famines.
Missing women; inequality.
Social welfare/social progress.
Countries missing millions of women
Female pop. Expected female pop. Missing women
China 599.4 654.3 54.9
India 473.9 517.7 43.7
Pakistan 63.4 69.8 &nbs ...