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Valuing Freedoms: Sen's Capability Approach and Poverty Reduction (Queen Elizabeth House Series in Development Studies)
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ISBN: 0199283311
Author: Alkire, Sabina
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Sabina Alkire shows how Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen's capability approach can be coherently--and practically--put to work in poverty reduction activities. Sen argues that economic development should expand "valuable" freedoms. Alkire probes how we identify what is valuable. Foundational issues are addressed critically--dimensions of development, practical reason, culture, basic needs--drawing on Thomist authors who give central place to authentic participation. A participatory procedure for identifying capability change is then developed. Case studies of three Oxfam activities in Pakistan--goat-rearing, female literacy, and rose cultivation--illustrate this novel approach.
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Valuing Freedoms: Sen's Capability Approach and Poverty Reduction (Queen Elizabeth House Series in Development Studies)