Valuing Freedoms : Sen's Capability Approach and Poverty Reduction

ISBN-13: 9780199245796 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 352 str.

Sabina Alkire

Opis

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.

Recenzje

... the book is well-referenced and contributes to the development of Sen's capability approach ... good reading for economists and non-economists interested in the capability approach.

O autorze

Sabina Alkire coordinates a research and learning programme on Culture and Poverty in the Poverty Group at the World Bank. She is also a deacon in the Anglican Church.