The Capability Approach: Using the capability approach: prospective and evaluative analyses

By S. Alkire. 2008

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice: The Capability Approach Re-Examined (2017, background): “13 Alkire (2008) calls these normative applications “prospective analysis”, and argues that we need to distinguish the evaluative applications of the capability approach from the “prospective applications” of the capability approach.”
• Evaluating Social Justice in Transport: Lessons to be Learned from the Capability Approach (2011, methodology): “Alkire (2008) draws attention to the compatibility of Wiggin’s basic needs and Sen’s basic capabilities and describes this relation with a basic function: “If a person (y) has a basic need for x, and f is a function which entirely and only reflects the relationship between y and x, then f is a…”