Amartya Sen's Capability Approach and Its Application in.
Next, the article addresses the Sen x Townsend debate, that happened in the first half of the 1980 decade. Then, we will discuss the Senian perspective of poverty in terms of the lack of capabilities. We present three reasons why the definition of poverty in terms of capabilities is more appropriate than its predecessors: a) it comprises both an absolute and a relative element; b) it is not.
The conceptual framework of the capability approach proposed by Amartya Sen has never been used specifically in the dynamics of forced displacement or in the analysis of the quality of life of the population victims of the Colombian armed conflict. Reason why, this article affirms that the approach of capabilities agrees with the differential approach proposed by the Colombian Constitutional.
This book outlines the range and usefulness of his work for gender analysis while also exploring some of its silences and implicit assumptions. The result is a collection of groundbreaking and insightful essays which cover major topics in Sen's work, such as the capability approach, justice, freedom, social choice, agency, missing women and development and well-being. Perspectives have been.
The capability approach, a theoretical framework pioneered by the philosopher and economist Amartya Sen in the 1980s, has become an increasingly influential way to think about these issues. Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice: The Capability Approach Re-Examined is both an introduction to the capability approach and a thorough evaluation of the challenges and disputes that have engrossed the.
Disability may be thought to pose special problems for Equality of Opportunity theorists since many of them endorse meritocratic allocation of jobs and many disabled persons face greater obstacles to becoming the most meritorious than the non-disabled since some are naturally disadvantaged in terms of abilities that may be related to performance in jobs. Treating the disabled the same as the.
In fact, Sen declines to endorse a single definitive list of capabilities, since he conceives of the capability approach as a general, flexible framework of thought open to both a broad range of evaluative purposes and differing views about the concept of individual advantages, normative assessments and social arrangements. 14 This brings us to the second question: the determination of which.
This paper presents an analysis and an assessment of Amartya Sen’s capability approach. In the first part, it gives a detailed explanation of the capability approach. It analyses the core concepts and tries to clarify confusions in the literature by looking at different interpretations and usages. In the second part of the paper the major critiques on the capability approach are scrutinised.