Valuing Freedoms: Sen's Capability Approach and Poverty Reduction

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Oxford University Press, 2002 - 340 Seiten
"Sen deliberately left the capability approach 'incomplete' in order to ensure its relevance to persons and cultures with different understandings of the good. Part I proposes a framework for identifying valuable capabilities that retain this 'fundamental' incompleteness and space for individual and cultural diversity. Drawing on the work of John Finnis and others, Alkire addresses foundational issues regarding the identification and pursuit of 'valuable' dimensions of human development based in practical reason, then observes that much of the criticism and development arises from negative impacts on social or cultural/religious dimensions that are also deeply valued by the poor. Part I closes with a four-part 'operational definition' of basic capability that bridges 'basic needs', participation, and informed consent.".
 

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27
Poverty and Human Development
35
The practical reasoning approach
43
Other accounts of dimensions
59
Range Information and Process
94
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106
Basic Needs and Basic Capabilities
155
Assessing Capability Change
199
Three Case Studies
233
Appendix
297
Index of Names
327

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Sabina Alkire coordinates a research and learning programme on Culture and Poverty in the Poverty Group at the World Bank. She is also a deacon in the Anglican Church.

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