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Capabilities Approach

Capabilities Approach. in a nutshell!. capability approach. freedoms of people in this world are too often restricted. economic factors (poverty) political factors (oppression, disenfranchisement) social factors (discrimination). capability approach. the key to human development is

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Capabilities Approach

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  1. Capabilities Approach in a nutshell!

  2. capability approach freedoms of people in this world are too often restricted economic factors (poverty) political factors (oppression, disenfranchisement) social factors (discrimination)

  3. capability approach the key to human development is extending the real freedoms of people

  4. capability approach freedoms are understood within the concept of democracyin its broadest definition democracy as a system of civil and political freedoms contingent on collective responsibilities

  5. capability approach one should be able to choose which freedoms to pursue or not pursue the choice should lie within the individual rather than on external forces “I choose to be educated” “I choose not to be imprisoned for my political beliefs”

  6. capability approach ensuring the substantive freedoms of people to live long and live well child denied elementary schooling adult without access to medical treatment bonded labourer born into semislavery subjugated girl child stifled by repressive society landless labourer anyone living in poverty

  7. capability approach an approach to human development – the betterment of humanity – that wants us to think about whether everyone seeking to live long and live well actually has the capability to do so and if not, then we should look to establish the freedoms that will allow each to do so

  8. A capabilities approach to measuring human development is currently challenging other traditional measures...

  9. Economic measures (GDP/GNP) focusses only on wealth fails to measure distribution Utilitarianism “happiness” is relative

  10. It is because Sen has put forward an “approach”, rather than a fully defined substantive development theory, that his contribution has proven to be very useful for many. As an “approach”, his work became an invitation for people to use it by adding their own thoughts and experience about complex phenomena. Operationalizing the Capabilities Approach Dr. F. Comin director, Capability and Sustainability Centre, University of Cambridge

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