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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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Freedom as capability: how the capability approach can improve our understanding of freedom in established democracies
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that there are limitations with existing measures of democracy, and present a new measure of democracy which employs a more expansive definition of freedom: freedom as capability.
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Land Tenure and Human Security During Post-Conflict Development
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Cross-national analysis of a model of reproductive health in developing countries
Vijayan K. Pillai,Rashmi Gupta +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a model of reproductive health at the cross-national level and found that as the level of democracy increases resulting in improvements in gender equality, the extent of personal rights improves.
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The resilient child, human development and the “postdemocracy”
Jennifer Henderson,Keith Denny +1 more
TL;DR: Resilience is the popular term for a capacity to "bounce back" from adversity as discussed by the authors and it is also a scientific concept informing an influential bio-psychological approach to contemporary inequality.
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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.