Entitlement, Shortage and the 1943 Bengal Famine
Another Look
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2158114 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark B Tauger (0000-0001-8762-0277, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 45-72 |
| Publication date | 2003-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Peasant Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0306-6150 • E-ISSN: 1743-9361 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0306615031000169125 |
| OpenAlex | W1986621165 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
This article outlines an amendment to Amartya Sen's entitlement approach to famines and applies it to the Bengal Famine of 1943. The theoretical amendment - environmental production entitlement or EPE - expresses on an individual level the effects of natural disaster and shortage in a manner analogous to the way Sen's exchange entitlement reflects the effects on individuals of large-scale market shifts. In applying the new theoretical approach, the paper presents previously overlooked data showing that a major natural disaster in 1942 caused a serious food shortage in Bengal and was the most important cause of the famine
BENGAL · Development economics · Economic growth · Economic shortage · Economics · Entitlement (fair division · Famine · Geography · Government (linguistics · Microeconomics · Natural disaster · Natural resource economics · Political science · Scale (ratio · Agricultural risk and resilience · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Law · Social and Economic Development in India
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| Citations per year | 0.61 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2008 - 2024 (17) |
| Highly cited | No |