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Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach
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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.Abstract:
Acknowledgments Preface Introduction Feminism and international development 1. In defense of universal values 2. Adaptive preferences and women's options 3. The role of religion 4. Love, care, and dignity.read more
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Misery Loves Companies: Rethinking Social Initiatives by Business:
TL;DR: The authors argue that companies are increasingly asked to provide innovative solutions to deep-seated problems of human misery, even as economic theory instructs managers to focus on maximizing their shareholders' wealt.
Report by the commission on the measurement of economic performance and social progress
TL;DR: As a measure of market capacity and not economic well-being, the authors pointed out that the two can lead to misleading indications about how well-off people are and entail the wrong policy decisions.
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The Capability Approach: a theoretical survey
TL;DR: The capability approach is a broad normative framework for the evaluation and assessment of individual well-being and social arrangements, the design of policies, and proposals about social change in society.
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Human Rights and Capabilities
TL;DR: The notion of human rights and capabilities go well with each other, so long as we do not try to subsume either concept entirely within the territory of the other as mentioned in this paper, and the methodology of public scrutiny draws on Rawlsian understanding of 'objectivity' in ethics, but the impartiality that is needed cannot be confined within the borders of a nation.
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A Genealogy of Dependency: Tracing a Keyword of the U.S. Welfare State
Nancy Fraser,Linda Gordon +1 more
TL;DR: The issue of welfare dependency has become a keyword of U.S. politics as mentioned in this paper, and politicians of diverse views regularly criticize what they term welfare dependency, which is referred to as "welfare dependency".
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Scapegoating Poor Women: An Analysis of Welfare Reform
TL;DR: The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), passed in August 1996, ushered in the most significant welfare reform in six decades as discussed by the authors, which ended Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), and with it the federal entitlement to welfare implemented as part of the 1935 Social Security Act, and replaced it with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF).
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Rights and Wrongs of Welfare Reform: A Feminist Approach
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the success of any welfare program should be evaluated by whether it achieves its fundamental goal of allowing single mothers to keep their children and provide for them adequately.