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Sen's capabiliteiten methode.
No full textIn dit artikel wordt een overzicht gegeven van de recente ontwikkelingen binnen het kader van Sen's capabiliteitentheorie. Sen biedt een perspectief op welzijn, geconceptualiseerd als het hebben van keuzes en mogelijkheden, dat noch inkomen, noch levensstandaard centraal stelt. Deze laatste worden binnen Sen's perspectief immers als louter instrumenteel beschouwd voor het bereiken van die mogelijkheden. In dit artikel exploreren we de theoretische mogelijkheden en beperkingen van deze aanpak, alsook haar praktische toepasbaarheid.
A.K. Sen et J.E. Roemer : une même approche de la responsabilité ?
No full textNational audienceThe aim of this paper is to examine the view of responsibility A.K. Sen and J.E. Roemer support via their theories (Roemer's Equality of Opportunity principle and Sen's capability approach). The comparative analysis between these approaches is motivated by Roemer's atypical opinion about Sen's capability approach. A brief overview of the modern theories of justice is necessary to understand the issues raised by the treatment of responsibility and to realize properly in which way Roemer's position is questionable. These statements lead to a thorough comparison between both theories.L'objet de cet article est d'examiner comment A.K. Sen et J.E. Roemer envisagent la responsabilité par le biais de leur théorie (Equality of Opportunity principle de Roemer et capabilité de Sen). L'analyse comparative de ces approches est justifiée par la position atypique que Roemer exprime sur la capabilité. Une brève revue des théories modernes de la justice est nécessaire pour mesurer les enjeux soulevés par le traitement de la responsabilité et pour réaliser pleinement en quoi la position de Roemer est sujette à examen. Ces considérations mènent à une comparaison approfondie des deux théories
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Sen and the art of educational maintenance: evidencing a capability, as opposed to an effectiveness, approach to schooling
No full textThere are few more widely applied terms in common parlance than ‘capability’. It is used (inaccurately) to represent everything from the aspiration to provide opportunity to notions of innate academic ability, with everything in between claiming apostolic succession to Amartya Sen, who (with apologies to Aristotle) first developed the concept. This paper attempts to warrant an adaptation of Sen’s capability theory to schooling and schooling policy, and to proof his concepts in the new setting using research involving 100 pupils from 5 English secondary schools and a schedule of questions derived from the capability literature. The findings suggest that a capability approach can provide an alternative to the dominant Benthamite school effectiveness paradigm, and can offer a sound theoretical framework for understanding better the assumed relationship between schooling and well-being
The Contributions of Professor Amartya Sen in the Field of Human Rights
No full textThis paper analyses the work of the Nobel Prize winning economist Professor Amartya Sen from the perspective of human rights. It assesses the ways in which Sen's research agenda has deepened and expanded human rights discourse in the disciplines of ethics and economics, and examines how his work has promoted cross-fertilisation and integration on this subject across traditional disciplinary divides. The paper suggests that Sen's development of a 'scholarly bridge' between human rights and economics is an important and innovative contribution that has methodological as well as substantive importance and that provides a prototype and stimuli for future research. It also establishes that the idea of fundamental freedoms and human rights is itself an important gateway into understanding the nature, scope and significance of Sen's research. The paper concludes with a brief assessment of the challenges to be addressed in taking Sen's contributions in the field of human rights forward.Amartya Sen, human rights, poverty, freedom, obligation, capability approach, meta-rights, entitlements, opportunity freedom, liberty-rights
Income distribution, standard of living and capabilities: a cross-sectoral analysis.
No full textThe aim of the paper is to investigate how agricultural relative incomes have changed in recent years, since the CAP has switched its emphasis from price support to rural development. The distributional implications of agricultural and rural policies are indirectly evaluated looking at the dynamics of earnings and wages in agriculture, as well as at the rural household incomes described through monetary and non monetary variables, so to proxy their living standards. Our concern is not particularly on the agricultural policy tools, as much as on the evaluation of their end results. A comparison spanning through time and across countries is performed on the basis of the information provided by the ECHP and EU-SILC surveys. The paper seeks to unravel the differences between rural and urban population in the different European areas and offers a description of how successes and failures varied, keeping the CAP in the background.Income distribution, Standard of living Earnings in agriculture., Agricultural and Food Policy, D31, E24, J31, N50,
An Alternative approach to measure HDI
No full textThe popularly known Human Development Index (HDI) is obtained through linear averaging (LA) of indices in three dimensions - health, education and standard of living. LA method assumes perfect substitutability among the indices. We question its appropriateness and propose an alternative measure, which is the inverse of the Euclidian distance from the ideal. Following Zeleny (1974), we refer to this, as the Displaced Ideal (DI) method. Through an axiomatic characterization, the paper shows that the advantages in the DI method are the following. Uniform, as against skewed, development is rewarded. Through an ideal path, it signals a future course of action. These signify that a given increment in any one dimension, with other dimensions remaining constant, has a greater significance for the index at a lower level than at a higher level. In other words, stagnancy in the dimension that has a lower value is more serious than stagnancy in other dimensions. Finally, an empirical illustration has been done by taking the statistics in Human Development Report 2006. We strongly propose that the DI method be considered over the LA method in the construction of HDI.Displaced ideal, Euclidian distance, Ideal point, Linear averaging, Uniform development
Poverty and Human Development in India: Getting Priorities Right
No full texthuman development, poverty, empowerment
An Alternative Approach to Measure HDI
No full textThe popularly known Human Development Index (HDI) is obtained through linear averaging (LA) of indices in three dimensions - health, education and standard of living. LA method assumes perfect substitutability among the indices. We question its appropriateness and propose an alternative measure, which is the inverse of the Euclidian distance from the ideal. Following Zeleny (1974), we refer to this, as the Displaced Ideal (DI) method. Through an axiomatic characterization, the paper shows that the advantages in the DI method are the following. Uniform, as against skewed, development is rewarded. Through an ideal path, it signals a future course of action. These signify that a given increment in any one dimension, with other dimensions remaining constant, has a greater significance for the index at a lower level than at a higher level. In other words, stagnancy in the dimension that has a lower value is more serious than stagnancy in other dimensions. Finally, an empirical illustration has been done by taking the statistics in Human Development Report 2006. We strongly propose that the DI method be considered over the LA method in the construction of HDI.Displaced ideal, Euclidian distance, Ideal point, Linear averaging, Uniform development
Inequalities, Agency, and Well-being: Conceptual Linkages and Measurement Challenges in Development
No full textdevelopment, inequality, gender, well-being, agency, capability, distribution, Sen
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