![]() Īmartya Sen also touches on this in an article titled The Food Problem: Theory and Policy from Third World Quarterly, "The approach of entitlements also provides guidance regarding relief of famines should it occur or threaten to occur. This theory is called the failure of exchange entitlements or FEE in short. According to the proposed theory, famines are due to an inability of a person to exchange his entitlements rather than to food unavailability. labor for rice, when his employment became erratic or was completely eliminated. It has been suggested by Amartya Sen in his book Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation that the causal mechanism for precipitating starvation includes many variables other than just decline of food availability such as the inability of an agricultural laborer to exchange his primary entitlement, i.e. Citizens in Bengal road making as part of a famine relief project. ![]()
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