January 013 Curriculum Vitae Amartya Sen

January 2013 

  19 

 

“Public Action and the Quality of Life in Developing Countries,” Oxford Bulletin of Economics 

and Statistics, 43 (November 1981). 

 

 

 

“Carrots, Sticks and Economics: Perception Problems in Economics,” Indian Economic 

Review, 18 (January-June 1983). 

 

 

 

“Development: Which Way Now?” Economic Journal, 93 (December 1983). 

 

 

 

“Economic Development: Some Strategic Issues,” Asian Journal of Economics and Social 

Studies, 3 (1984). 

 

 

“Planning and the Judgment of Economic Progress,” Review of Indian Planning Process, 

Proceedings of the Golden Jubilee Celebrations of the Indian Statistical Institute (Calcutta: I.S.I., 

1986). 

 

 

 

“Economic Distance and the Living Standard,” in A.G. Drabek, A. Ewing and K.A. Patel, 

eds., World Economy in Transition (Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1986). 

 

 

 

“Sri Lanka's Achievements: How and When?” in P. Bardhan and T.N. Srinivasan, eds., 

Rural Poverty in South Asia (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1988, and New York: 

Columbia University Press, 1989). 

 

 

 

“The Concept of Development,” in H. Chenery and T.N. Srinivasan, eds., Handbook of 

Development Economics (Amsterdam: North Holland, 1988). 

 

 

 

“Public Action for Social Security,” in E. Ahmad et al., Social Security in Developing Countries 

(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990). 

 

 

 

“Socialism, Markets and Democracy,” The Indian Economic Journal, 37 (April-June 1990). 

 

 

“Individual Freedom as a Social Commitment,” The New York Review of Books (June 14, 

1990). 

 

 

“What Did You Learn in the World Today?” American Behavioral Scientist, 34 (May/June 

1991). 

 

 

 

“Life and Death in China: A Reply,” World Development, 20 (1992). 

 

 

 

“Sukhamoy Chakravarty: An Appreciation,” in Kaushik Basu and Mukul Majumdar, eds., 

Sukhamoy Chakravarty (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1993). 

 

 

 

“The Political Economy of Targeting,” Keynote Address to the Annual Bank Conference 

on Development Economics, World Bank, 1992, in D. van de Walle and K. Nead, 

eds., Public Spending and the Poor (Washington, DC, World Bank 1995). 

 

 

 

“Why Does Poverty Persist in Rich Countries?” in P. Guidicini and G. Pieretti, eds., Urban 

Poverty and Human Dignity (Milan: Franco Angeli, 1994). 

 

 

 

“Economic Regress: Concepts and Features,” Proceedings of the World Bank Annual Conference 

on Development Economics 1993 (Washington, DC, The World Bank, 1995). 

 

 

---

January 2013 

  20 

 

“Mortality as an Indicator of Economic Success and Failure,” Innocenti Lecture, UNICEF, 

Florence, Italy, March l995; republished in Economic Journal, 108 (1998). 

 

 

 

“Development Thinking at the Beginning of the 21st Century,” in Louis Emmerij, ed., 

Economic and Social Development into the XXI Century (Washington, DC. Inter-American 

Development Bank, and Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997). 

 

 

 

“Economic Development and Social Change: India and China in Comparative 

Perspectives,” Prospect 1 (October 1995); Italian translation in La Terra (February l996). 

 

 

 

“Concepts of Human Development and Poverty: A Multidimensional Perspective,” in 

Poverty and Human Development:  Human Development Papers 1997, United Nations 

Development Programme, New York, l997, 1-20.  Jointly with Sudhir Anand.  

Reprinted in S. Fukuda-Parr and A. K. Shiva Kumar, eds., Readings in Human 

Development (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2003). 

 

 

 

“What’s the Point of a Development Strategy?” in E. Malinvaud et al., Development Strategy 

and the Management of the Market Economy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997). 

 

 

“Human Development and Financial Conservatism,” World Development, 26 (1998).  

 

 

 

“An Institutional View of  Development and Democracy: Asia’s Past and its Future,” 

Keynote speech at the Yomiuri Shimbun forum session at Kwansei Gakuin University, 

Nishinmiya, Japan, 1999; Japanese translation published in Yomiuri Shimbun (January 

2000). 

 

 

 

Beyond the Crisis: Development Strategies in Asia (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 

1999); also published in Sustainable Development and Human Security (Japan: Centre for 

International Exchange, 1999). 

 

 

“A Decade of Human Development,” Journal of Human Development, 1 (February 2000). 

 

 

 

“The Income Component of the Human Development Index,” Journal of Human  

 

 

Development, 1 (February 2000).  Jointly with Sudhir Anand. 

 

 

 

“Global Doubts,” Harvard University Commencement Address, June 8, 2000; published in 

Harvard Magazine, 102 (August 2000). 

 

 

“The Fear of Freedom,” in T. Pelagidis, L. T. Katseli and J. Milios, eds., Welfare State and 

Democracy in Crisis: Reforming the European Model (UK: Ashgate, 2001). 

 

 

“Ten Truths About Globalization,” The International Herald Tribune (July 14, 2001); appeared 

as “Slicing Up the Spoils” in The Guardian (July 19, 2001). 

 

 

“Global Inequality and Persistent Conflicts,” published in “War and Peace in the 20

th

 

Century and Beyond,” proceedings of the Nobel Centennial Symposium, World 

Scientific (2001). 

 

 

“How to Judge Globalism,” The American Prospect, special supplement, Winter 2002. 

 

 

“Democrary and Its Global Roots,” The New Republic (October 6, 2002) 

 

---