The Study On Amartya Sen's Poverty Theory

Poverty as a phenomenon of human society or social issues, at different times, indifferent countries have different styles. However, it has been long that poverty representation and measurement are often limited to lack of material, low-income, and poverty caused for the different class. The outstanding contribution of Amartya Sen is on:On the basis of entitlement deprivation and capability deprivation, showing a unique theories and methods of poverty identification, enriched the treasure of ideas of social welfare, provides a new theoretical perspective to understand the nature of contemporary poverty, address poverty issues and carry out the policy of anti-poverty.This paper focuses on Amartya Sen's poverty idea, after the description of the origin of poverty study, combined with the evaluation about the general concept of poverty and the new way of poverty identification to study Amartya Sen's poverty idea. Clearly show how Sen's poverty study transferred to the essence of poverty is the deprivation of capability under the perspective of substantive freedoms from the essence of poverty is the deprivation of entitlement under the way of entitlement approach. Then have a deep research on the Characteristics and contributions of Sen's poverty theory through the compare with other poverty theory, and have a comment on the discussions and the localization of Sen's poverty idea, provide some inspiration to the anti-poverty of china.