Is Sen's Capability Approach an Adequate Basis for Considering Human Development?

By D. Gasper. 2002

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What is the capability approach?: Its core, rationale, partners and dangers (2007, background): “Alkire (2005b) suggests that we should in general describe and compare alternatives in terms of both criteria.10 Formally speaking, 9 A start is made in Gasper (2002), sections 5 and 6, and Gasper (2003).”
Multidimensional Measures of Well-Being: Standard of Living and Quality of Life Across Countries (2007, background): “In the second approach, the HDI’s reductionist nature is also criticized but bigger questions are raised, such as the relationship between the capability approach and the concept of human development (Gasper, 2002), or broader ones, about the content and empirical measurement of ‘‘capabilities.’’”
The Capability Approach: Using the capability approach: prospective and evaluative analyses (2008, background): “16 These have been done by Malenbaum, W. (1988). "Amartya Sen on Future Development Policy and Program: Review Article." Economic Development & Cultural Change 36(2): 401-09, Crocker, D. (1992). "Functioning and capabilities: the foundation of Sen's and Nussbaum's development ethic.”
The Capability Approach: Its Development, Critiques and Recent Advances (2005, background): “He has also argued for a richer conception of human personality, which incorporates the variety of values and motives that influence human action (Gasper, 2002; 2004, p.180).”
Capabilities, human capital and education (2007, background): “Nevertheless, as stressed by Gasper (2002) , human freedoms are not simply defined by what a person does or could do, but also by how much what she does is consistent with that she believes is right to do. Individuals must discuss, define and deliberate on which human values and ends have to be tak”
Human well-being: concepts and conceptualizations (2004, background): “Giri 2000, Gasper 2002, Gasper and van Staveren 2003.) Let us look at his usage of the term ‘well-being’, and at whether capability is better seen as an interpretation of a person’s ‘advantage’.”
Sen's capability approach and the many spaces of human well-being (2005, background): “3. Other aspects of the CA have been discussed by Alkire [2002a], Clark [2002], Gasper [2002; 2004] and Qizilbash [1996 ], amongst others.”
Sen's Capability Approach as a framework to the practice of development (2010, background): “The concepts of functionings and capabilities are essential components of Sen’s Capability Approach, as Gasper (2002) shows.”