An inquiry into well-being and destitution
By: Partha Dasgupta.
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 661
Subjects: Poverty -- Developing countries; Quality of life -- Developing countries; Resource allocation; Income distribution -- Developing countries; Households -- Developing countries; Malnutrition -- Developing countries
Description: An interdisciplinary study of what is broadly development economics, but encompasses the most recent insights from philosophy, research and empirical work on resource allocation, nutrition science and anthropology. It deals with the problem of poverty - its causes and remedies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [546]-625)  and indexes.