Comments on Alex de Waal's ‘Re‐assessment of Entitlement Theory in the Light of Recent Famines in Africa’

S.R. Osmani

Development and Change, 1991, vol. 22, issue 3, 587-596

Abstract: Alex de Waal attempts to build his account of recent famines in Africa (de Waal, 1990) on the foundations of a critique of Amartya Sen's entitlement theory ‐ henceforth, Entitlement Theory (ET). The core of the paper is thus composed of two parts ‐ one critical and the other constructive. The constructive part, or at least the motivation behind it, is eminently useful, but the critical part, I am afraid, is rather off the mark. I shall argue that not only are his criticisms hard to accept, they are also not necessary for building his constructive part.

Date: 1991
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