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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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Mattering Matters: Agency, Empowerment, and Mobile Phone Use by Female Microentrepreneurs
TL;DR: It is suggested that mobile phone use plays a significant role in contributing to female entrepreneurs' perception that they matter and the utility of mattering for the ICT4D community.
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Sen’s Capability Approach An Analytical Tool to Poverty Analysis in Land Reform Environments
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argued that it is only within the capability space that the environmental (climate, geographical location and changes in the quality of the land resource base) and social (public policies, social norms or power structures and relations) conversion factors that influence the ability of the poor to live meaningful lives in land reform environments can be adequately ascertained.
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Science, Technology and Innovation as Social Goods for Development: Rethinking Research Capacity Building from Sen's Capabilities Approach.
TL;DR: Sen’s Capabilities Approach is extended beyond its traditional focus on individual entitlements to present a view of scientific knowledge as a social good and the capability to produce it as aSocial capability, which has implications for the interpretation of human rights instruments beyond their current focus on access to knowledge.
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A Post-development Hoax? (Re)-examining the Past, Present and Future of Development Studies
Nathan Andrews,Sylvia Bawa +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors re-examined the future of development studies, based on its past and present trajectories, and showed that development may be useful if its norms and practices become context-specific and are made to benefit its purported beneficiaries.
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Poverty, time and vagueness: integrating the core poverty and chronic poverty frameworks
David Clark,David Hulme +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify three dimensions of poverty: depth and severity; breadth and multidimensionality; and time and duration, and suggest a way of integrating time into a unified framework for understanding poverty.
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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.