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Jean Drèze

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Belgium

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Anthropology, Nonfiction

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Publications
Dreze, Jean "Patterns of Literacy and their Social Context", (originally written 199?), in Veena Das (ed.), 2004, Oxford Handbook of Indian Sociology, New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Dreze, Jean, 2002, "On Research and Action", Economic and Political Weekly, March 2, 37 (9). New Delhi.
Dreze, Jean and Haris Gazdar, 1997. "Uttar Pradesh: the Burden of Inertia", in Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen, (eds) Indian Development: Selected Regional Perspectives, New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Dreze, Jean and Amartya Sen, (eds), 1997, Indian Development: Selected Regional Perspectives, New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Drèze J. and Sen, A.K. 1989. Hunger and Public Action. Oxford University Press.
Drèze J. and Sen, A. (eds.). 1990. The Po ...more

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	An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictions by Jean Drèze, Amartya Sen 4.15 avg rating — 1,574 ratings — published 2013 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sense And Solidarity - Jholawala Economics for Everyone 4.25 avg rating — 229 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Amartya Sen and Jean Drèze Omnibus: (comprising) Poverty and Famines; Hunger and Public Action; India: Economic Development and Social Opportunity by Jean Drèze, Amartya Sen 4.32 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	India: Development and Participation by Jean Drèze, Amartya Sen 3.76 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 2002 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hunger and Public Action (WIDER Studies in Development Economics) by Jean Drèze, Amartya Sen 4.17 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1899 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	India: Economic Development and Social Opportunity by Jean Drèze, Amartya Sen 3.41 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1996 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Indian Development: Selected Regional Perspectives (WIDER Studies in Development Economics) by Jean Drèze (Editor), Sen Dreze 3.84 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1997 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Social Policy 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Political Economy of Hunger: Volume 2: Famine Prevention (WIDER Studies in Development Economics) by Jean Drèze (Editor), Jean Drèze (Editor) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1990 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Political Economy of Hunger: Volume 3: Endemic Hunger (WIDER Studies in Development Economics) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1991 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Development is, ultimately, the progress of human freedom and capability to lead the kind of lives that people have reason to value.”
― Jean Drèze, An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictions

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“Much else than liberalization has happened in the nineties (in India)”
― Jean Dreze

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“We cannot prove that privileged owe something to the rest, any more than we can prove that theft is wrong.”
― Jean Drèze, Sense And Solidarity - Jholawala Economics for Everyone

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