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Poverty And Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation Paperback – 6 Dec. 1990
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- ISBN-100198284632
- ISBN-13978-0198284635
- EditionReprint
- PublisherOxford University Press, U.S.A.
- Publication date6 Dec. 1990
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions13.97 x 1.91 x 21.59 cm
- Print length270 pages
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- Publisher : Oxford University Press, U.S.A.; Reprint edition (6 Dec. 1990)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 270 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0198284632
- ISBN-13 : 978-0198284635
- Dimensions : 13.97 x 1.91 x 21.59 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 900,258 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Amartya Sen is Professor of Economics and Professor of Philosophy at Harvard. He was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1998 to 2004, and won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998. His many celebrated books including Development as Freedom (1999), The Argumentative Indian (2005), Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny (2007), and The Idea of Justice (2010), have been translated into more than 40 languages. In 2012 he received the National Humanities Medal from President Obama and in 2020 he was awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade by President Steinmeier.
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I wish, Poverty, Famines, Starvation, Hunger wither away from the earth. It's painful and undescribable.


