A Capability Approach for Official German Poverty and Wealth Reports: Conceptual Background and First Empirical Results [PDF]
The majority of the literature related to Amartya Sen´s Capability Approach (CA) has been devoted to questions of development and developing countries. In this paper, however, with a theoretical concept and first empirical results at hand, we shed some ...
Christian Arndt, Jürgen Volkert
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Poverty Measures and Anti-Poverty Policy [PDF]
, 1990 [Excerpt] Amartya Sen has made fundamental contributions to the study of distributional aspects of economic growth and decline. Among his pathbreaking works are his lectures on the economics of inequality (Sen, 1973), his article on the axiomatics of ...
Bourguignon, Francois, Fields, Gary S
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A Turning Point in Gender Bias in Mortality? [PDF]
, 2001 More than 10 years ago, Amartya Sen estimated than some 100 million women are 'missing' as a result of excess female mortality in parts of the developing world, most notably South Asia, China, West Asia, and parts of North Africa (Sen, 1989; Sen 1990 ...
Klasen, Stephan, Wink, Claudia
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The Agrarian Question in the Web of Life
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
A. Haroon Akram‐Lodhi
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Transformation without Paternalism [PDF]
, 2016 Human development is meant to be transformational in that it aims to improve people's lives by enhancing their capabilities. But who does it target: people as they are or the people they will become?
Davis, John B., Wells, Thomas R.
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The synergistic relationship between Amartya Sen entitlement theory and the systems theory in developing a food security implementation model in Matabeleland South Province, Zimbabwe. [PDF]
Jamba, 2021 Muzerengi T, Khalema EN, Zivenge E.
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Consequentialism and the ideal theory debate in political philosophy
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Andreas T. Schmidt
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Structural Injustice and Self‐Development
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Azizjon Bagadirov
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Can the Capability Approach be Evaluated within the Frame of Mainstream Economics? A Methodological Analysis [PDF]
The aim of this article is to examine the capability approach of Amartya Sen and mainstream economic theory in terms of their epistemological, methodological and philosophical/cultural aspects.
Hatice Karaçay Çakmak
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Capabilities and Well-being [PDF]
, 2008 Introduction The Capability Approach (CA) has been initiated and guided by Amartya Sen, since the 1980s, as an alternative to neoclassical welfare economics.
Staveren, I.P. (Irene) van
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