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Valuing Freedoms: Sen's Capability Approach and Poverty Reduction

Valuing Freedoms: Sen's Capability Approach and Poverty Reduction

Paperback

Series: Queen Elizabeth House Development Studies

Economics

ISBN10: 0199283311
ISBN13: 9780199283316
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: May 12 2005
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.76 Width: 6.25 Depth: 9.13
Language: English
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.

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