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The Capability Approach in Practice
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Beyond GDP: The Quest for a Measure of Social Welfare
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the problem of intertemporal welfare analysis using the Net National Product (NNP) for the sustainability policy and in the context of concern for well-being of the future generations.
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Choosing Dimensions: The Capability Approach and Multidimensional Poverty
TL;DR: The main merits of the approach is the need to address these judgmental questions in an explicit way, rather than hiding them in some implicit framework as mentioned in this paper, and one of the main merits is that there can be substantial debates on the particular functionings that should be included in the list of important achievements and corresponding capabilities.
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Beyond GDP: The Quest for a Measure of Social Welfare
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the various approaches to the measurement of individual well-being and social welfare that have been considered for the construction of alternatives to GDP and conclude that, although convergence toward a consensual approach is not impossible, for the moment not one but three alternatives to the GDP are worth developing.
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Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice: The Capability Approach Re-Examined
TL;DR: The capability approach as discussed by the authors is a theoretical framework which was pioneered by the philosopher and economist Amartya Sen in the 1980s, and it can be used to evaluate social progress and developing policies.
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The Imperatives of Sustainable Development
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors suggest a model for sustainable development based on three moral imperatives: satisfying human needs, ensuring social equity, and respecting environmental limits, and argue that sustainable development constitutes a set of constraints on human behaviour, including constraints on economic activity.
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Development as Freedom
TL;DR: In this paper, Amartya Sen quotes the eighteenth century poet William Cowper on freedom: Freedom has a thousand charms to show, That slaves howe'er contented, never know.
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Commodities and Capabilities
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the relationship between well-being and Sex Bias in India and some international comparative comparisons of the two domains, and present a survey of the relationship.
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Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the role of religion in women's empowerment in international development and defend universal values of love, care, and dignity in the context of women empowerment.
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Capability and Well-Being
TL;DR: Amartya Sen as discussed by the authors proposes that alternatives be appraised by looking to the capabilities they provide for individuals rather than only by individual utilities, incomes, or resources (as in commonly used theories).