Overview
Sabina Alkire shows how Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen's capability approach can be coherently--and practically--put to work in poverty reduction activities. Sen argues that economic development should expand "valuable" freedoms. Alkire probes how we identify what is valuable. Foundational issues are addressed critically--dimensions of development, practical reason, culture, basic needs--drawing on Thomist authors who give central place to authentic participation. A participatory procedure for identifying capability change is then developed. Case studies of three Oxfam activities in Pakistan--goat-rearing, female literacy, and rose cultivation--illustrate this novel approach.
- | Author: Sabina Alkire
- | Publisher: OUP Oxford
- | Publication Date: May 12, 2005
- | Number of Pages: 352 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0199283311
- | ISBN-13: 9780199283316
