Valuing Freedoms: Sen's Capability Approach and Poverty Reduction, SABINA ALKIRE. Oxford University Press, 2002, vii+340 pages.

By I. Robeyns. Economics and Philosophy, 2003

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A capability perspective on impairment, disability and special needs (2005, background): “Some authors (Alkire, 2002; Robeyns, 2003) have expanded this aspect of the capability approach, envisaging different perspectives on what forms this process of social deliberation and democratic participation may take with regard to such things as the analysis of gender inequality or with the…”
From Individual to Collective Capabilities: The Capability Approach as a Conceptual Framework for Self‐help (2006, background): “Within the CA, individuals are considered ‘‘agents who have diverse valued goals and commitments on behalf both of themselves and of their society’’ (Alkire, 2005, p. 125). Human agency lies at the heart of any self-help activity as it stresses ‘‘the ability of the people to help themselves and to i”
Capabilities and Well-Being: Evidence Based on the Sen–Nussbaum Approach to Welfare (2005, background): “For one thing, although it probably does make sense to add physical capabilities, the value of people’s 2 See also particularly Alkire (2002), Atkinson (1999), Gasper (1997), Qizilbash (1996) and Robeyns (2003).”