![]() ![]() Sen's concepts and labels reflected, naturally enough, the purposes in his study of the 1940s Bengal famine and its specific conditions. ![]() However difficulties may arise with its concept of `entitlement relations', and with confusions related to the label and the referent of the `entitlement' concept, and to the original `exchange entitlement' label. For wider subjects, this general approach - a socially disaggregated, institutionally aware, analysis of effective command over specific necessities - is again valuable. For analysis of famines, the approach provides a valuable set of concepts and questions in explanation and policy design but it gives a general frame rather than a comprehensive theory or detailed explanatory model. It has evolved in various ways as it is applied to new regions, purposes, and subjects - beyond South Asia, to policy design, and to matters of routine hunger, environment, gender and overall intra-societal distribution. Sen's entitlements approach has attracted much attention and imitation, including attempted extensions beyond its original context in the explanation of famines. ![]()
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