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The Capability Approach was first articulated by the Indian economist and philosopher Amartya Sen in the 1980s, and remains most closely associated with him.
Moreover, Amartya Sen contends that functionings are crucial to an adequate understanding of the capability approach; capability is conceptualized as a reflection of the freedom to achieve valuable functionings.
The structure of this paper is as follows. Section 2 provides a brief description of the key concepts of Sen's capability approach. Section 3 outlines the challenges that any attempt to operationalize the capability approach must face and present Sen's responses to these challenges.
This chapter provides an overview of the conceptual and normative foundations of the capability approach and the role of agency within the approach. It puts aside the diverse ways in which the capability approach has been applied and implemented (Robeyns 2006). The chapter is divided into two parts.
Sep 22, 2009 · Amartya Sen's capability approach has generated remarkable interest in recent years. This volume brings together a selection of papers initially presented at an international conference on the capability approach (CA) held at St Edmund's College, Cambridge in 2001.
How should we evaluate advantage and disadvantage? Amartya Sen, pioneer of what has become known as the capability approach, argues there are three principal alternatives.
Aug 13, 2019 · This chapter provides an overview of the capability approach and human development paradigm and situates them within development economics, thought and practice, highlighting its contrasts with conventional thinking, and complementarities with human rights and feminist economics.
The capability approach developed by Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen has become an important new paradigm in thinking about development. However, despite its theoretical and philosophical attractiveness, there has been scepticism about the usefulness of the approach for purposes of measurement and policy analysis.
A major theme of his work is how to evaluate human wellbeing. His ideas on evaluation, equality, freedom, and rights stand at the center of the capability approach, which is generally associated with his name, having its origins in lectures he delivered in the late 1970s (Sen 1980).
ABSTRACT. This essay critically examines economist and philosopher Amartya Sen's writings as a potential resource in religious ethicists' efforts to analyze crimination against girls and women and to address their well-being agency.
