CONTENTS List of Figures viii List of Tables ix List of Contributors xii Introduction 1 PART I HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND CAPABILITIES 1. Inter-Country Comparisons of Income Poverty Based on a Capability Approach 7 SANJAY G. REDDY, SUJATA VISARIA AND MUHAMMAD ASALI 2. The Capability Approach and the Political Economy of Human Development 31 AMIYA KUMAR BAGCHI 3. India and China: The Art of Prolonging Life 48 LINCOLN C. CHEN 4. Sustainable Human Well-Being: An Interpretation of Capability Enhancement from a Stakeholders and Systems Perspective 61 KANCHAN CHOPRA 5. Human Rights and Human Development 76 SAKIKO FUKUDA-PARR 6. Entitlements and Capabilities: Young People in Post-Industrial Wales 100 JOCELYN KYNCH 7. Country Patterns of Behavior on Broader Dimensions of Human Development 119 GUSTAV RANIS, FRANCES STEWART AND EMMA SAMMA 8. Poverty and Famines: An Extension 139 ASHUTOSH VARSHNEY PART II GENDER AND THE HOUSEHOLD 9. Engaging with Sen on Gender Relations: Cooperative Conflicts, False Perceptions and Relative Capabilities 157 BINA AGARWAL 10. Family Ties, Incentives and Development: A Model of Coerced Altruism 178 INGELA ALGER AND JORGEN W. WEIBULL 11. From Harmony to Cooperative Conflicts: Amartya Sen's Contribution to Household Theory 202 LOURDES BENERJA 12. Famine, Widowhood and Paid Work: Seeking Gender Justice in South Asia 219 MARTHA ALTER CHEN 13. Time and Income: Empirical Evidence on Gender Poverty and Inequalities from a Capability Perspective 237 ENRICA CHIAPERO MARTINETTI 14. Death and Gender in Victorian England 259 JANE HUMPHRIES AND KIRSTY McNAY 15. Missing Women: Some Recent Controversies on Levels and Trends in Gender Bias in Mortality 280 STEPHAN KLASEN PART IIIGROWTH, POVERTY AND POLICY 16. Challenges of Economic Development in Punjab 303 ISHER AHLUWALIA 17. Growth, Distribution and Inclusiveness: Reflections on India's Experience 327 MONTEK S. AHLUWALIA CONTENTSVll 18. Economic Reforms, Poverty and Inequality in China and India 350 PRANAB BARDHAN 19. Economics, Ethics and Climate Change 365 SIMON DIETZ, CAMERON HEPBURN AND NICHOLAS STERN 20. Has Development and Employment through Labor-intensive Industrialization Become History?387 RIZWANUL ISLAM 21. Imposed Environmental Standards and International Trade 411 ROBERT M. SOLOW PART IVSOCIETY, POLITICS AND HISTORY 22. Pondering Poverty, Fighting Famines: Towards a New History of Economic Ideas 425 SUGATA BOSE 23. Identity, Violence and the Power of Illusion 436 JONATHAN GLOVER 24. Freedom and Equality: From Iqbal's Philosophy to Sen's Ethical Concerns 452 AYESHA JALAL 25. Protective Security or Protection Rackets? War and Sovereignty 470 MARY KALDOR 26. Democracy and its Indian Pasts 488 SUNIL KHILNANI 27. The Clash Within: Democracy and the Hindu Right 503 MARTHA C. NUSSBAUM 28. Engaging with Impossibilities and Possibilities522 ELINOR OSTROM 29. Agents into Principals: Democratizing Development in South Asia 542 REHMAN SOBHAN Index of Names 563 Index of Subjects 571