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Inequality and the Capability Approach

open access: yes, 2017
Inequality has acquired a newfound prominence in academic and political debate. While scholars working with the capability approach have succeeded in influencing the nature of debate about the conceptualisation and measurement of poverty, which is increasingly understood in multidimensional terms, the recent literature on inequality focusses ...
Burchardt, Tania, Hick, Rod
openaire   +1 more source

System and Life-Course Perspectives on Capability to Work and Capability Through Work

open access: yes, 2022
The capability approach is relevant to gaining a conceptual understanding of individuals’ abilities and motivation to work and to explore the potential consequences that various working conditions have for people when they reach old age.
Flisbäck, Marita,   +7 more
core   +1 more source

Principals’ views on the implementation of the no-fee policy through the lens of capability theory

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Education, 2020
The purpose of the study reported on here was to investigate the implementation of the no-fee schools policy in quintile 1 schools in the Frances Baard district of the Northern Cape province.
Emma Priscilla Barnett, Rouaan Maarman
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluation of Regional Transportation System by the Capability Approach :

open access: yes, 2014
This paper intends to evaluate regional transportation system from the viewpoint of residents’ happiness by the Sen’s capability approach where the data on satisfaction –with –various activities and satisfaction-with –public transportation service are ...
佐々木, 公明   +8 more
core   +1 more source

Sen and the art of educational maintenance: evidencing a capability, as opposed to an effectiveness, approach to schooling [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
There are few more widely applied terms in common parlance than ‘capability’. It is used (inaccurately) to represent everything from the aspiration to provide opportunity to notions of innate academic ability, with everything in between claiming ...
Kelly, Anthony
core   +1 more source

Inequality, disadvantage and the capability approach: Bridging conceptual framework and empirical analysis

open access: yesSocial Work and Society, 2019
In this paper, I will discuss some of the challenges that arise when seeking to apply the capability to empirically examine poverty, inequality and welfare state change.
Rod Hick
doaj   +2 more sources

Nouvelles formes de gouvernance dans le domaine de l’eau. Apports et limites de la coopération décentralisée dans les pays en développement

open access: yesDéveloppement Durable et Territoires, 2010
Our paper builds on this issue of decentralized cooperation in the field of water management. Cooperation between decentralized entities in order to ensure the access to safe drinking water for all now constitutes in many places a preferred water ...
Raoudha Makkaoui, Jean Luc Dubois
doaj   +1 more source

Hospitalization Through Families’ Eyes: Comparing Inpatient Care Quality for Children With Sickle Cell Disease and Cystic Fibrosis in Canada

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a chronic, inherited hemoglobinopathy that requires frequent hospitalization for disease‐related complications. Canadian data on inpatient care is limited. This study compared caregiver‐reported hospital experiences of children with SCD to those with cystic fibrosis (CF), a chronic, autosomal recessive ...
Hailey M. Zwicker   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the Dynamics of Agripreneurship Perception and Intention among the Nigerian Youth [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Economic and Social Development (Varaždin), 2023
Agriculture is a strategic sector for tackling the perennial problem of youth unemployment in Nigeria. However, lack of youth participation has hampered the growth of agriculture.
Kenechukwu Ikebuaku
doaj  

Deep Sequencing of FLT3‐ITD Enables Response Evaluation and Post‐Treatment Monitoring in Childhood AML: An Exploratory Study

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background An internal tandem duplication in the gene encoding Fms‐like tyrosine kinase 3 (FLT3‐ITD) is associated with high relapse risk and poor prognosis in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and plays a crucial role in treatment decisions. Measurable residual disease (MRD) analysis of FLT3‐ITD during and after treatment has shown prognostic ...
Sofie Johansson Alm   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

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