Jean Drèze, development economist, has taught at the London School of Economics and the Delhi School of Economics and is currently Visiting Professor at Ranchi University. He has made wide-ranging contributions to development economics and public policy, with special reference to India. He is co-author (with Amartya Sen) of Hunger and Public Action (Oxford University Press, 1989), An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions (Penguin, 2013), and Sense and Solidarity (OUP: 2019).Amartya Sen teaches economics and philosophy at Harvard University, and was previously Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. He has served as President of the American Economic Association, the Indian Economic Association, the International Economic Association, and the Econometric Society. His awards include the Bharat Ratna (India), Commandeur de la légion d'honneur (France), the National Humanities Medal (USA), Honorary Companion of Honour (UK), Ordem Nacional do Mérito Científico (Brazil), and the Nobel Prize in Economics.

Review from previous edition What makes the work of Drèze and Sen so worthy of respect is that it is not reliant on theory or on indignation but firmly based on detailed research and analysis of all aspects of the problem.

• 1: Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen: Introduction 2: Amartya Sen: Food, Economics, and Entitlements 3: S. M. Ravi Kanbur: Global Food Balances and Individual Hunger: Three Themes in an Entitlements Based Approach 4: Rehman Sobhan: The Politics of Hunger and Entitlement 5: Kirit S. Parikh: Chronic Hunger in the World: Impact of International Policies 6: N. Ram: An Independent Press and Anti Hunger Strategies: The Indian Experience 7: Partha Dasgupta and Debraj Ray: Adapting to Undernourishment: The Biological Evidence and its Implications 8: S. R. Osmani: Nutrition and the Economics of Food: Implications of Some Recent Controversies 9: Sudhir Anand and Christopher Harris: Food and Standard of Living: An Analysis Based on Sri Lankan Data 10: Barbara Harriss: The Intrafamily Distribution of Hunger in South Asia 11: Ann Whitehead: Rural Women and Food Production in Sub Saharan Africa

Jean Drèze, development economist, has taught at the London School of Economics and the Delhi School of Economics and is currently Visiting Professor at Ranchi University. He has made wide-ranging contributions to development economics and public policy, with special reference to India. He is co-author (with Amartya Sen) of Hunger and Public Action (Oxford University Press, 1989), An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions (Penguin, 2013), and Sense and Solidarity (OUP: 2019).Amartya Sen teaches economics and philosophy at Harvard University, and was previously Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. He has served as President of the American Economic Association, the Indian Economic Association, the International Economic Association, and the Econometric Society. His awards include the Bharat Ratna (India), Commandeur de la légion d'honneur (France), the National Humanities Medal (USA), Honorary Companion of Honour (UK), Ordem Nacional do Mérito Científico (Brazil), and the Nobel Prize in Economics.

Review from previous edition What makes the work of Drèze and Sen so worthy of respect is that it is not reliant on theory or on indignation but firmly based on detailed research and analysis of all aspects of the problem.

• 1: Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen: Introduction 2: Amartya Sen: Food, Economics, and Entitlements 3: S. M. Ravi Kanbur: Global Food Balances and Individual Hunger: Three Themes in an Entitlements Based Approach 4: Rehman Sobhan: The Politics of Hunger and Entitlement 5: Kirit S. Parikh: Chronic Hunger in the World: Impact of International Policies 6: N. Ram: An Independent Press and Anti Hunger Strategies: The Indian Experience 7: Partha Dasgupta and Debraj Ray: Adapting to Undernourishment: The Biological Evidence and its Implications 8: S. R. Osmani: Nutrition and the Economics of Food: Implications of Some Recent Controversies 9: Sudhir Anand and Christopher Harris: Food and Standard of Living: An Analysis Based on Sri Lankan Data 10: Barbara Harriss: The Intrafamily Distribution of Hunger in South Asia 11: Ann Whitehead: Rural Women and Food Production in Sub Saharan Africa

Jean Drèze, development economist, has taught at the London School of Economics and the Delhi School of Economics and is currently Visiting Professor at Ranchi University. He has made wide-ranging contributions to development economics and public policy, with special reference to India. He is co-author (with Amartya Sen) of Hunger and Public Action (Oxford University Press, 1989), An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions (Penguin, 2013), and Sense and Solidarity (OUP: 2019).Amartya Sen teaches economics and philosophy at Harvard University, and was previously Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. He has served as President of the American Economic Association, the Indian Economic Association, the International Economic Association, and the Econometric Society. His awards include the Bharat Ratna (India), Commandeur de la légion d'honneur (France), the National Humanities Medal (USA), Honorary Companion of Honour (UK), Ordem Nacional do Mérito Científico (Brazil), and the Nobel Prize in Economics.

Review from previous edition What makes the work of Drèze and Sen so worthy of respect is that it is not reliant on theory or on indignation but firmly based on detailed research and analysis of all aspects of the problem.

• 1: Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen: Introduction 2: Amartya Sen: Food, Economics, and Entitlements 3: S. M. Ravi Kanbur: Global Food Balances and Individual Hunger: Three Themes in an Entitlements Based Approach 4: Rehman Sobhan: The Politics of Hunger and Entitlement 5: Kirit S. Parikh: Chronic Hunger in the World: Impact of International Policies 6: N. Ram: An Independent Press and Anti Hunger Strategies: The Indian Experience 7: Partha Dasgupta and Debraj Ray: Adapting to Undernourishment: The Biological Evidence and its Implications 8: S. R. Osmani: Nutrition and the Economics of Food: Implications of Some Recent Controversies 9: Sudhir Anand and Christopher Harris: Food and Standard of Living: An Analysis Based on Sri Lankan Data 10: Barbara Harriss: The Intrafamily Distribution of Hunger in South Asia 11: Ann Whitehead: Rural Women and Food Production in Sub Saharan Africa