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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Garcés Velástegui, Pablo

Titel

Humanizing development: taking stock of Amartya Sen’s capability approach

Ist Teil von

• Problemas del desarrollo, 2020-12, Vol.51 (203), p.191-212

Ort / Verlag

Piso: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Instituto de Investigaciones Economicas

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

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Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Amartya Sen’s capability approach redefined development in terms of people and their quality of life. Since development suggests the idea of positive change, it highlights what is worth changing, the desirable outcome and the desirable way to achieve it. This influential framework has succeeded in engaging different disciplines in constructive debate. There is a growing, and dispersed, literature adding and critiquing it. Hence, providing a current conceptual account of the approach, on its own terms, to assess its contribution to the project it undertakes, address its alleged shortcomings, and point to avenues to further the debate seems warranted. This is particularly timely given its 30 years of influence over public policy, as evidenced by the United Nations’ Human Development Reports