Valuing Freedoms
Sen's Capability Approach and Poverty Reduction
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 17 March 2005
- ISBN 9780199283316
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages352 pages
- Size 234x156x19 mm
- Weight 511 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous tables 0
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Short description:
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 so that the voices and values of the poor matter. This provides economists, philosophers, theologians, and development practitioners with a way forward that addresses both theoretical and practical challenges.
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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.
"Valuing Freedoms is a major contribution to the further development and advancement of the capability approach. This book is very careful and accurate in its explanation of Sen's work...this book is essential reading for anyone who wants to take the capability approach forward, and it will certainly become a reference point for much future work in this area."
Table of Contents:
INTRODUCTION: CAPABILITY AND VALUATION
POVERTY AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
RANGE INFORMATION AND PROCESS
PARTICIPATION AND CULTURE
BASIC NEEDS AND BASIC CAPABILITIES
ASSESSING CAPABILITY CHANGE
THREE CASE STUDIES
