Settling down to listen to the person that helped me understand the true value of #economics - Amartya Sen @jrf_uk @prospect_uk #LSEpoverty
What lessons can anti poverty campaigners learn from Nobel Prize winning economist Amartya Sen #lsepoverty?
“@MMaryMcKenna: Big crowd here for the #LSEPoverty lecture with Amartya Sen pic.twitter.com/G7jVLLb8bf” Behind you!
Prof Amartya Sen asks how when extreme poverty is recognised as intolerable do we somehow come to tolerate it? @LSEpublicevents #LSEpoverty
Sen: 'justifications' for tolerating poverty include ignorance, sense of its intractability, or view that humans self-centred #lsepoverty
'Serious poverty can rob us of the very things which make us human' #lsepoverty
Sen: blaming the victim as common today as time of The Poor Laws #lsepoverty- Sen: India's large middle class and its tolerance of poverty is huge obstacle to reduction & removal of poverty #lsepoverty
Ignorance, acceptance that it can't be eradicated, belief that we are self centred - inadequate reasons for tolerating poverty #lsepoverty
Amartya Sen: these explanations for why we do nothing about poverty are plausible, but inadequate. #LSEpoverty
How do ppl come to terms w poverty in their country? Ignorance? Realism? Self-centrism? #lsepoverty- India's tolerance of poverty impacts on removal of poverty in country with growing middle class #lsepoverty
We tolerate poverty because we're ignorant, self centred and feel helpless to solve the poverty problem. #Sen #lsepoverty- Prof Sen on why societies may tolerate poverty:1.Ignorance 2.Belief in infeasibility of action 3.?Humans are self-centred beings #LSEpoverty
- Amartya Sen: India’s per capita income is 4x what it was in 1947 #LSEpoverty
Poverty in India is hardly ever discussed or covered by Indian media - print or broadcast - says Prof #AmartyaSen #LSEPoverty- India's poverty due to poor healthcare and schooling as much as low income #lsepoverty
- In India the media is preoccupied with the middle classes, crowding out discussion of India's poverty #lsepoverty < sounds familiar
#lsepoverty sen poverty in India deals with health are , deprivation of education and other services- India lacks basic public facilities for poverty removal #lsepoverty
- Sen: India's large, dynamic middle class dominates media coverage - crowds out nature, extent & irreducibility of poverty #lsepoverty
- Amartya Sen: the silence of the media in India helps perpetuate poverty #LSEpoverty
- #lsepoverty sen- @AamAadmiParty achievement of party to raise issues of concern deserves appreciation
#Sen Having or not having knowledge about poverty is not the issue, people in India have access to vast amounts of information #lsepoverty
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