| Drze, Jean and Sen, Amartya (1999): Hunger and Public Action, Oxford University Press, Delhi. |
....well functioning labour markets are crucial for their welfare and social security. There is a large amount of empirical work that shows how employment may fluctuate a great deal and, as in the case of agriculture, is subject to risks that also involve seasonal variations (Rosenzweig 1988, Drze and Sen 1989). Capital markets may prevent an individual from severe disruption in one period by allowing the consumption stream to be independent from the income stream, subject to the overall constraint that loans must be repaid (Deaton 1990, Gersovitz 1988) A basic problem of capital markets is that the ....
Drze, J.; Sen, A. (1989): Hunger and Public Action. Clarendon Press, Oxford.
....revenues that may be spent on education, health services, and income redistribution. A more democratic government may also be more likely to respond the needs of all of its citizens, women s and well as men s, indirectly promoting women s relative status. With respect to food security, the work of Drze and Sen (1989) and others clearly points to the expected importance of democracy in averting famine. More democratic governments may be more likely to honor human rights including the rights to food and nutrition (Haddad and Oshaug 1998) and to encourage community participation (Isham, Narayan, and ....
Drze, J., and Amartya Sen, eds. (1989). Hunger and Public Action. New York: Oxford University Press.
.... et al., 1995) and because it generates the social capital that is an important component of health egalitarian societies (Wilkinson, 1996) By enabling vulnerable groups to address their own problems, the social cohesion and public action required to redress inequity more generally is generated (Dreze and Sen, 1989). Moreover, participatory decision making processes which ensure that the voice of critical stakeholders, such as front line health care providers, are increasingly recognised as important requirements of effective health policy making (Walt and Gilson, 1994) For example, the isolation and ....
Dreze J and Sen A. (1989) Hunger and Public Action. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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