Amartya Sen
Nalanda university: Ivory pagodas
An ancient pan-Asian university might yet open again(13)
Measuring poverty: A many-headed beast
What's the best way to measure poverty?(5)
Economics focus: A wealth of data
A useful new way to capture the many aspects of poverty(12)
Books of the Year: Page-turners
The best books of 2009 covered the financial crisis, climate change and the war in Afghanistan, as well as justice, corruption, cooking and the power of literature(11)
The Commonwealth: Wider still and weaker?
An ever-expanding club of (mostly) ex-British colonies needs to develop sharper edges or else shut up shop(8)
The best of the rest of the economics web(2)
Amartya Sen on justice: How to do it better
In his study on how to create justice in a globalised world, Amartya Sen expounds on human aspiration and deprivation—and takes a swipe at John Rawls(9)
Global health: The price of being well
Is it time for a new paradigm for health and development? A heavyweight panel with an egalitarian ideology claims to have found one(25)
One price for all means pain for many(2)
Economics and the rule of law: Order in the jungle
The rule of law has become a big idea in economics. But it has had its difficulties(24)
The Commonwealth and conflict: Don't dare put me in a box
A report on how not to solve disputes(0)
Economics focus: Destitution not dearth
Niger's harvest last year was not so terrible. Why is the country now so hungry?(0)
The World in 2002: Addressing global poverty
Amartya Sen, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and winner of the Nobel prize for economics, asserts that the rich world will need to change its attitude to the poor(0)
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