Valuing freedoms : Sen's capability approach and poverty reduction
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Valuing freedoms : Sen's capability approach and poverty reduction
（Queen Elizabeth House series in development studies）
Oxford University Press, 2005, c2002
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"First published in paperback 2005"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-325) and indexes
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Description
Friendship, knowledge of foreign groups, the ability to purchase milk and shoes, the scent of summer roses: of what interest is this type of information to economists?
Sabina Alkire shows how Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen's capability approach can be coherently--and practically--put to work in poverty reduction activities. Sen argues that economic development should expand 'valuable' freedoms. Alkire probes how we identify what is valuable. Foundational issues are addressed critically--dimensions of development, practical reason, culture, basic needs--drawing on Thomist authors who give central place to authentic participation. A participatory
procedure for identifying capability change is then developed. Case studies of three Oxfam activities in Pakistan--goat-rearing, female literacy, and rose cultivation--illustrate this novel approach.
Valuing Freedoms will be of considerable interest to economists, philosophers, development practitioners, and theologians, as well as to followers of Sen's work.
Table of Contents
- 1. INTRODUCTION: CAPABILITY AND VALUATION
- 2. POVERTY AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
- 3. RANGE INFORMATION AND PROCESS
- 4. PARTICIPATION AND CULTURE
- 5. BASIC NEEDS AND BASIC CAPABILITIES
- 6. ASSESSING CAPABILITY CHANGE
- 7. THREE CASE STUDIES
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