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The World Employment Programme (WEP)was launched by the International Labour Organisation in 1969, as the ILO's main contribution to the International Development Strategy for the Second United Nations Development Decade.  \nThe means of action adopted by the WEP have included the following:  \n— short-term high-level advisory missions;  \n—longer-term national or regional employment teams; and  \n—a wide-ranging research programme.  \nThrough these activities the ILO has been able to help national decision-makers to reshape their policies and plans with the aim of eradicating mass poverty and unemployment.  \nA landmark in the development of the WEP was the World Employment Conference of 1976, which proclaimed inter alia that “strategies and national development plans should include as a priority objective the promotion of employment and the satisfaction of the basic needs of each country's population”. The Declaration of Principles and Programme of Action adopted by the Conference have become the cornerstone of WEP technical assistance and research activities during the closing years of the Second Development Decade.  \nPoverty and Famines  \nAn Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation  \nAmartya Sen  \nGreat Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP  \nOxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide in  \nOxford New York  \nAuckland Bangkok Buenos Aires Cape Town Chennai Dar es Salaam Delhi Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi Kolkata Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Mumbai Nairobi São Paulo Shanghai Taipei Tokyo Toronto Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries  \nPublished in the United States by Oxford University Press Inc., New York © International Labour Organisation 1981  \nFirst published 1981  \nFirst issued as a paperback 1982  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographcs rights organization. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above You must not circulate this book in any other binding or cover and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Sen, Amartya  \nPoverty and famines.  \n1. Famines  \nI. Title  \n363.8 HC79.F3 80-42191  \nISBN 0-19-828463-2  \nTo Amiya Dasgupta who introduced me to economics and taught me what it is about  \nThis page intentionally left blank  \nPreface  \nMuch about poverty is obvious enough. One does not need elaborate criteria, cunning measurement, or probing analysis, to recognize raw poverty and to understand its antecedents. It would be natural to be impatient with longwinded academic studies on ‘poor naked wretches’ with ‘houseless heads and unfed sides’ and ‘loop'd and windowed raggedness’, to use King Lear's graphic description. And furthermore it may also be the case, as Lear told the blind Gloucester, that ‘a man may see how this world goes with no eyes’. There is indeed much that is transparent about poverty and misery.  \nBut not everything about poverty is quite so simple. Even the identification of the poor and the diagnosis of poverty may be far from obvious when we move away from extreme and raw poverty. Different approaches can be used (e.g. biological inadequacy, relative deprivation), and there are technical issues to be resolved within each approach. Furthermore, to construct an overall picture of poverty, it is necessary t","cbCaivfvLD9Hy4ao","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivfvLD9Hy4ao","pdf",2194789,270,"English","# Preface\n## Poverty: what is obvious and what is not\n## Diagnosing poverty and aggregation issues\n## Causation of hunger and starvation\n## Structure of the monograph\n## Chapters focus and case studies\n## Technical appendices","[{\"question\":\"Why does the book argue that poverty is not always straightforward to identify?\",\"answer\":\"It notes that extreme poverty is easier to recognize, but identifying and diagnosing the poor becomes less obvious when moving away from raw, extreme deprivation. Different approaches require resolving technical issues.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the book’s main focus regarding starvation and famines?\",\"answer\":\"The main focus is on the causation of starvation generally and of famines in particular. 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