Valuing Freedoms

Sen's Capability Approach and Poverty Reduction

Autor: Sabina Alkire

Limbă:

Legare: Copertă tare

Editura: Oxford University Press

Disponibilitate: În depozitul extern

Expediem în 10-13 zile

487.62 lei

Alkire examines how Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen's capability approach can be coherentl...

Informații despre carte

Autor

Sabina Alkire

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2002

Pagini

356

EAN

9780199245796

ISBN

0199245797

Enbook ID

04530105

Editura

Oxford University Press

Greutate

700

Dimensiuni

241 x 164 x 28

Descriere completă

Alkire examines how Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen's capability approach can be coherently-and practically-put to work in participatory poverty reduction activities. Sen argues that economic development should expand 'valuable' capabilities. Alkire probes how we identify what is valuable. 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 retains 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 of 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. Part II proposes an alternative participatory method for systematically identifying valued changes in participants' capability sets. Three case studies of women's income generation activities in Pakistan-goat-rearing, adult literacy, and rose cultivation-contrast economic cost-benefit analysis of each activity with capability analysis.

S-ar putea să te intereseze

Clienții care au cumpărat această carte au mai cumpărat și

Cele mai căutate

Categories

Authors

Publishers

Produse

Produse

Cele mai căutate

Categories

Authors

Publishers

Produse

Produse

Valuing Freedoms

Sen's Capability Approach and Poverty Reduction

Informații despre carte

Descriere completă

S-ar putea să te intereseze

Clienții care au cumpărat această carte au mai cumpărat și