Valuing Freedoms: Sen's Capability Approach and Poverty Reduction

By S. Alkire. 2002

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On formalizing fairness in prediction with machine learning (2017, background): “One of the main strengths of this notion of fairness that it is flexible which allows it to be developed and applied in many different ways (1).”
Multidimensional poverty and inequality (2014, unknown): “See, among others, Sen (1985, 1992), Alkire (2002, 2007), Nussbaum (1990, 1993, 2003), Kuklys (2005), Robeyns (2005, 2006) and Basu and López-Calva (2011).”
Climate change and sustainable welfare: the centrality of human needs (2015, background): “The capability approach, first elaborated by Amartya Sen, has mounted a powerful challenge to orthodox welfare economics, has helped establish a more rounded conception of the human person than Homo economicus and has founded the only globally accepted alternative metric to GDP so far—the Human Deve”
Human development as a central goal for human resource development (2010, background): “…on HD is also based on philosopher John Finnis’ work that identifies as the goal of HD the ideal of human flourishing, described in relations to all life domains as ‘well-being and living well in matters public and private, economic and social, political and spiritual’ (Alkire 2002a, 182).”
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).”
Evaluating Social Justice in Transport: Lessons to be Learned from the Capability Approach (2011, methodology): “Although Alkire (2002) clarifies that Sen has never made a claim that the CA is operational or even admitted that it is a finished idea of justice (as Sen points out the impossibility of having a complete idea of justice in The Idea of Justice, 2009), she notes that it is, nevertheless, important…”
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.”
Choosing dimensions: the capability approach and multidimensional poverty. CPRC Working Paper No. 88. (2007, unknown): “1 Elsewhere I have proposed that Finnis’ Aristotelian approach, which develops an objective account of human flourishing that is open to plural interpretations and is based on practical reasoning, be used to identify dimensions of human development in general, and that these be specified by delibera”
Poverty reduction as a local institutional process (2005, background): “1 An optimistic scenario seems to underlie many attempts to engage in participatory development planning (Alkire, 2002; C. Long, 2001).”
The Social Framework for Projects: a conceptual but practical model to assist in assessing, planning and managing the social impacts of projects (2017, background): “However, Alkire (2002a) demonstrated how Sen’s approach can be implemented in practice.”
Does it Matter that we do not Agree on the Definition of Poverty? A Comparison of Four Approaches (2003, background): “Other attempts to define the essential capabilities have been conducted by Alkire (2002), Desai (1995) and Qizilbash (1998).”