Rather, it has to do not only with augmenting incomes but also with the expansion of workable social safety nets such as access to education, healthcare, sanitation, potable water and clean air. Challenging the general belief that human development is a luxury to which only the developed nations are entitled, he questions the validity of economic growth as an end in itself. Written as a ‘general work on development’, which he defines as ‘the removal of various types of unfreedom’ (p36), Sen takes us on a convincing journey through the highways of developmental economics. In this selection of 12 essays – built around six lectures delivered at the World Bank in 1996 when he was a Presidential Fellow – Amartya Sen, Nobel Laureate and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, reintroduces us to some of his now-famous repertoire of terms: capabilities, entitlements, cooperative conflict and development as freedom.
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