Sabina Alkire

Valuing Freedoms

Sen's Capability Approach and Poverty Reduction

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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 c… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-0-19-928331-6
EAN: 9780199283316
Produktnummer: 22669412
Verlag: OUP Oxford
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Seitenangabe: 356 S.
Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D1.9 cm 541 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 541

Über den Autor

Sabina Alkire is currently a researcher with the Global Equity Initiative, Harvard University. Previously she has worked for the Commission on Human Security, coordinated the culture-poverty learning and research initiative at the World Bank, and developed participatory impact assessment methodologies with Oxfam and the Asia Foundation in Pakistan.