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This article outlines an amendment to Amartya Sen's entitlement approach to famines and applies it to the Bengal Famine of 1943. The theoretical amendment - environmental production entitlement or EPE - expresses on an individual level the effects of natural disaster and shortage in a manner analogous to the way Sen's exchange entitlement reflects the effects on individuals of large-scale market shifts. In applying the new theoretical approach, the paper presents previously overlooked data showing that a major natural disaster in 1942 caused a serious food shortage in Bengal and was the most important cause of the famine.
Mark B. Tauger (Wed,) studied this question.