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“We struggle with the earth everyday”: parents’ perspectives on the capabilities for healthy child growth in haor region of Bangladesh

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2020
Background Childhood stunting is an important public health problem in the haor region of Bangladesh. Haor areas are located in the north-eastern part of the country and are vulnerable to seasonal flooding.
Barnali Chakraborty   +3 more
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Using the Capability Approach to Review the National Legislative Frameworks for Support Services for Persons with Disabilities in Four Countries in Asia

open access: yesSocieties, 2022
Implementation of the United Nations Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities (UN CRPD) requires countries to harmonise their legislative frameworks with it. This paper investigates the national legislative frameworks of four Asian countries
Shivani Gupta   +2 more
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PRECARIOUS, MORE PRECARIOUS, MOST PRECARIOUS? THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF WASTE PICKERS IN THE KAROO

open access: yesSocial Work/Maatskaplike Werk, 2021
Towns in the Karoo region currently offer few income‑generating opportunities, resulting in people seeking informal waste‑picking opportunities on the streets and landfills. This article aims to investigate the level of precariousness of waste pickers in
Rinie Schenck   +2 more
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Applying the Capability Approach to Improve the Quality of Medical Laboratory Test Results

open access: yesJournal of Karnali Academy of Health Sciences, 2022
Good medical laboratory test result relies on the appropriate quality assurance techniques, quality control mechanism, and quality management practices used in the laboratory.
Kishor Khanal
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Entrepreneurship and Human Development: An International Analysis

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Gestão De Negócios, 2020
Purpose – This study aims to analyze the impact on human development of rates of innovative entrepreneurship and necessity entrepreneurship. Design/methodology/approach – Our empirical study is based on samples from countries with information about ...
José Antonio Camacho Ballesta   +2 more
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On Capability Approach, Poverty and Corruption

open access: yesSHS Web of Conferences, 2014
The core of development is to face up with the challenge of the issue of poverty, which directly is associated with the ultimate goal of social, political and economic development.
Daojiu Hu
doaj   +1 more source

An extension of the capability approach

open access: yesAlter, 2011
In this paper, we introduce a framework that is an extension of the capability approach of Amartya Sen to analyse the concept of disability in a dynamic context for the disabled person. We build a theory of “dis-capability,” according to which we define as disabled someone who has a limited capability set compared to his/her objectives, ambitions and ...
BELLANCA, NICOLO'   +2 more
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Children's Human Capabilities and Child Maltreatment

open access: yesJournal de Ciencias Sociales, 2020
There are no known studies that have explored a conceptual basis for valorizing child maltreatment as a human development impediment using the Human Capability Approach.
Clementia Eugene, Tobi L. G. Graafsma
doaj   +1 more source

Adopting the capability approach in the evaluation of homeless services [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
openLa teorizzazione del Capability Approach, ad opera di Nussbaum, risulta essere un’ottima guida per i programmi sociali, stabilendo i requisiti necessari per vivere una vita dignitosa, ovvero garantire ad ogni persona lo sviluppo di 10 capacita ...
GRAMOLA, ANNA
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The Capabilities Approach

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2008
The origins of the capabilities approach within welfare economics are to be found in a series of influential papers and monographs, written by Amartya Sen in the early eighties of the previous century (Sen, 1980, 1985a; Sen et al., 1987). He developed and discussed the approach further in some widely read books (Sen, 1992, 1999; Nussbaum and Sen, 1993).
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