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The human development paradigm: operationalizing sen's ideas on capabilities
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A gender perspective has also helped highlight important aspects of this paradigm, such as the role of collective agency in promoting development as discussed by the authors, and gender analysis has been central to the development of the new agency-driven paradigm, and gender equity is a core concern.Abstract:
Amartya Sen's ideas constitute the core principles of a development approach that has evolved in the Human Development Reports. This approach is a "paradigm" based on the concept of well-being that can help define public policy, but does not embody a set of prescriptions. The current movement from an age of development planning to an age of globalization has meant an increasing attention to agency aspects of development. While earlier Human Development Reports emphasized measures such as the provision of public services, recent ones have focused more on people's political empowerment. This paper reflects on Sen's work in light of this shift in emphasis. Gender analysis has been central to the development of the new agency-driven paradigm, and gender equity is a core concern. A gender perspective has also helped highlight important aspects of this paradigm, such as the role of collective agency in promoting development.read more
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Gender Budgets: A Capability Approach
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce an approach to the gender auditing of public budgets inspired by the capability approach, which takes into account women's multidimensional well-being and the contribution of their unpaid work to other people's well -being.
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Sen and the Measurement of Justice and Capabilities: A Problem in Theory and Practice
TL;DR: The relationship between Sen's theoretical work and its interpretation in the measurement of justice, in particular by the United Nations Development Project (UNDP) and by the British Equality and Human Rights Commission and Government Equalities Office in its Equality Measurement Framework is discussed in this paper.
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Criminology and the UN Sustainable Development Goals: the need for support and critique
TL;DR: The UN Sustainable Development Goals address a number of criminological issues, such as gender-based violence, environmental justice, and safe, just, and sustainable societies as discussed by the authors, and the authors argue that criminologists should contribute to this agenda in a way that might benefit international development community.
JARring Actions that Fuel the Floods
TL;DR: The authors assesses two prominent disasters, the 1993 flood and Hurricane Katrina, that were exacerbated by JARring actions, and outline a variety of possible policy responses for addressing the external costs associated with the JAR-ring actions under-taken by private entities and by government.
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Structure, (governance) and health: an unsolicited response
TL;DR: The relationship between population health and three structural factors (access to improved water, GDP per capita, and governance) were examined in each of 176 countries and governance was found to be significantly correlated with population health.
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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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Utilitarianism and Beyond
Amartya Sen,Bernard Williams +1 more
TL;DR: The economic uses of utilitarianism J. A. Harsanyi and T. M. Scanlon as discussed by the authors have discussed the relationship between contractualism and utilitarianism in the context of economics.
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Reflections on human development
TL;DR: In this paper, an emerging development paradigm, and the imperative for a new international dialogue in topics central to human development such as a peace agenda for the Third World, are discussed.