Amartya Sen and the capability approach
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Reference from Anna Ruggiero
De: Equity, Health & Human Development [mailto:EQUIDAD@LISTSERV.PAHO.ORG] Em nome de Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)
Enviada em: quinta-feira, 24 de fevereiro de 2005 12:34
Para: EQUIDAD@LISTSERV.PAHO.ORG
Assunto: [EQ] Measuring Human Development - The Sen difference
Volume 22 - Issue 04, Feb. 12 - 25, 2005
Website: http://www.frontlineonnet.com
This issue with several articles on Amartya Sen and the capability approach.
“….Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses….”
- Mahatma Gandhi, Economic and Moral Progress, December 22, 1921
“…Sen thinks Rawls' theory to be limited from the point of view of human diversity; it does not go deep enough to capture some blatant inequalities in society. Human beings differ from one another in a number of ways. There are, first and foremost, differences in personal characteristics such as health, age, sex and genetic endowments.
Human beings also vary from one another in the types of external environment and social conditions they live in. These different elements of human diversity crucially affect the ways in which resources such as income and wealth are transformed into relevant capabilities. A physically handicapped person, for example, might be in need of more resources to be mobile than an able-bodied person. Or, improving girls' literacy level in most poor countries might require much more than just spreading some resources around; it might, among other things, require changing the mindset of parents and social customs. Or, increasing the social and political participation of traditionally oppressed groups would demand efforts more than just providing access to resources; it might require tackling some entrenched social, economic and political practices and structures.
Since Rawls' theory works with the assumption of a liberal society with citizens having more or less equal capacities, Sen points out, inequalities and disadvantages arising from human diversities are either postponed to be settled by legislative or judicial procedures or at the most relegated as issues falling in the domain of charity…..”
The Sen difference: by John M. Alexander
Operationalising the Capabilities Approach: by Flavio Comim
Interview: Amartya Sen
Beyond liberalism?: by Toon Vandevelde
Measuring human development: by John M. Alexander and Koen Decancq
Reference from Anna Ruggiero
De: Equity, Health & Human Development [mailto:EQUIDAD@LISTSERV.PAHO.ORG] Em nome de Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)
Enviada em: quinta-feira, 24 de fevereiro de 2005 12:34
Para: EQUIDAD@LISTSERV.PAHO.ORG
Assunto: [EQ] Measuring Human Development - The Sen difference
Volume 22 - Issue 04, Feb. 12 - 25, 2005
Website: http://www.frontlineonnet.com
This issue with several articles on Amartya Sen and the capability approach.
“….Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses….”
- Mahatma Gandhi, Economic and Moral Progress, December 22, 1921
“…Sen thinks Rawls' theory to be limited from the point of view of human diversity; it does not go deep enough to capture some blatant inequalities in society. Human beings differ from one another in a number of ways. There are, first and foremost, differences in personal characteristics such as health, age, sex and genetic endowments.
Human beings also vary from one another in the types of external environment and social conditions they live in. These different elements of human diversity crucially affect the ways in which resources such as income and wealth are transformed into relevant capabilities. A physically handicapped person, for example, might be in need of more resources to be mobile than an able-bodied person. Or, improving girls' literacy level in most poor countries might require much more than just spreading some resources around; it might, among other things, require changing the mindset of parents and social customs. Or, increasing the social and political participation of traditionally oppressed groups would demand efforts more than just providing access to resources; it might require tackling some entrenched social, economic and political practices and structures.
Since Rawls' theory works with the assumption of a liberal society with citizens having more or less equal capacities, Sen points out, inequalities and disadvantages arising from human diversities are either postponed to be settled by legislative or judicial procedures or at the most relegated as issues falling in the domain of charity…..”
The Sen difference: by John M. Alexander
Operationalising the Capabilities Approach: by Flavio Comim
Interview: Amartya Sen
Beyond liberalism?: by Toon Vandevelde
Measuring human development: by John M. Alexander and Koen Decancq
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