Arjun Sengupta
Biographic Data
| ID | 3605042 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arjun Sengupta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arjun |
| FAMILY NAME | Sengupta |
| SIGNATURE | SENGUPTA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arkansas |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2210-1876 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Timing of Communication
Using an experiment, we demonstrate that a communication regime in which a worker communicates about his intended effort is less effective in: (i) soliciting truthful information; and (ii) motivating effort than one in which he communicates about his past effort. Our experiment uses a real-effort task, which additionally allows us to demonstrate the effects of communication on effort over time. We show that the timing of communication affects the…
Inclusive growth as rights-based development
In this overview essay, the late Professor Arjun Sengupta traces the theoretical and operational roots of contemporary approaches to growth and redistribution in general. In particular, he argues the case of pursuing ‘inclusive growth’ in the process of development. After a critical examination of the applicability of various approaches to welfare policy, the essay focuses on a human rights-based approach, arguing that it is an indispensable mora…
A Rights-Based Approach to Removing Poverty: Eradicating Poverty as Realizing Human Rights
Reflections on the Right to Development
Papers presented at the Third Workshop on the Right to Development Project, held at New Delhi in August 2003
Realizing the Right to Development
The Right to Development as established in the 1986 UN Declaration on the Right to Development has now been recognized, through an international consensus arrived at in Vienna in 1993, as a universal and inalienable right and an integral part of fundamental human rights. That has not, of course, settled all the controversy regarding the nature and the content of the Right to Development, but the inter-governmental debate has shifted more to the m…
The functioning of the international monetary system: A critique of the perspective of the industrial countries
Commodities, Finance and Trade
Journal Article Commodities, Finance and Trade Get access Commodities, Finance and Trade. Edited by Arjun Sengupta. (London: Frances Pinter, 1980. Pp. xlix + 407. £15.00.) Peter J. W. N. Bird Peter J. W. N. Bird University of Stirling Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 91, Issue 362, 1 June 1981, Pages 547–549, https://doi.org/10.2307/2232607 Published: 01 June 1981
A New International Commodity Regime
Realizing the Right to Development
The Right to Development as established in the 1986 UN Declaration on the Right to Development has now been recognized, through an international consensus arrived at in Vienna in 1993, as a universal and inalienable right and an integral part of fundamental human rights. That has not, of course, settled all the controversy regarding the nature and the content of the Right to Development, but the inter-governmental debate has shifted more to the m…
The functioning of the international monetary system: A critique of the perspective of the industrial countries
A New International Commodity Regime
A New International Commodity Regime
Commodities, Finance and Trade
Journal Article Commodities, Finance and Trade Get access Commodities, Finance and Trade. Edited by Arjun Sengupta. (London: Frances Pinter, 1980. Pp. xlix + 407. £15.00.) Peter J. W. N. Bird Peter J. W. N. Bird University of Stirling Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 91, Issue 362, 1 June 1981, Pages 547–549, https://doi.org/10.2307/2232607 Published: 01 June 1981
The functioning of the international monetary system: A critique of the perspective of the industrial countries
Realizing the Right to Development
The Right to Development as established in the 1986 UN Declaration on the Right to Development has now been recognized, through an international consensus arrived at in Vienna in 1993, as a universal and inalienable right and an integral part of fundamental human rights. That has not, of course, settled all the controversy regarding the nature and the content of the Right to Development, but the inter-governmental debate has shifted more to the m…
Reflections on the Right to Development
Papers presented at the Third Workshop on the Right to Development Project, held at New Delhi in August 2003
A Rights-Based Approach to Removing Poverty: Eradicating Poverty as Realizing Human Rights
Inclusive growth as rights-based development
In this overview essay, the late Professor Arjun Sengupta traces the theoretical and operational roots of contemporary approaches to growth and redistribution in general. In particular, he argues the case of pursuing ‘inclusive growth’ in the process of development. After a critical examination of the applicability of various approaches to welfare policy, the essay focuses on a human rights-based approach, arguing that it is an indispensable mora…
Timing of Communication
Using an experiment, we demonstrate that a communication regime in which a worker communicates about his intended effort is less effective in: (i) soliciting truthful information; and (ii) motivating effort than one in which he communicates about his past effort. Our experiment uses a real-effort task, which additionally allows us to demonstrate the effects of communication on effort over time. We show that the timing of communication affects the…
Economics (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Human rights (4 works) · Human Rights and Development (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Development economics (2 works) · Economic system (2 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (2 works) · Law (2 works)