Human Development and Capability Association

Human Development and Capability Association: "Development can be seen ... as a process of expanding the real freedoms that people enjoy. Focusing on human freedoms [or capabilities] contrasts with the narrower views of development, such as identifying development with the growth of gross national product, or with the rise in personal incomes, or with industrialization, or with technological advance, or with social modernization.
--Amartya Sen, President of the HDCA 2004-2006

Welcome! This is the website of the Human Development and Cabability Association, an association that promotes research from many disciplines on problems related to impoverishment, justice, and well-being. This site is here to serve you - whatever your academic or practical interest in the human development and capability approach. This is a place to learn more, to encounter other people and to find an intellectual and policy community. This site has the most comprehensive collection of bibliographic resources on the web! And we hope to be the 'virtual tearoom' of a truly global network of people interested in the capability approach.



Registration has begun for The 5th International Conference on the Capability Approach Knowledge and Public Action: Education, Responsibility, Collective Agency, Equity being held September 11-14 in Paris. Please visit our conference information page for more information."