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An Introduction to the Human Development and Capability Approach : Freedom and Agency.

Aimed at undergraduates and post-graduates in the social sciences, as well as development practitioners, this textbook provides an introduction to the human development and capability approach; it also clarifies key concepts and fosters debate on a number of critical issues. The book offers new pers...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Deneulin, Severine
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover; An Introduction to the Human Development and Capability Approach; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures, Tables and Boxes; List of Contributors; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I: Concepts; 1. A Normative Framework for Development; Normative, positive and predictive; Case studies; Normative frameworks matter; People first; 2. The Human Development and Capability Approach; Human development; Going deeper: The capability approach; 3. Ideas Related to Human Development; Human development and market liberalism: Freedom compared; How the idea of freedom is spread. 
505 8 |a The basic needs approachHuman rights; Human security; Other related ideas; Part II: Topics; 4. Economic Growth; Growth in the history of economic thought; Contemporary approaches to economic growth; Economic growth as a means to human flourishing; 5. Equality and Justice; A brief description of the literature on theories of justice; Rawls' theory of justice in a nutshell; Rawlsian justice versus the capability approach; What do we need for a capability theory of justice?; Gender justice and justice for marginalized groups; From theories of justice to just practices and policies. 
505 8 |a 6. Poverty and Inequality MeasurementThe importance and limitations of measurement; Income-based measures of inequality; Income poverty measurement: Two steps; Measuring development and well-being: The Human Development Index (HDI); Multidimensional poverty measurement; 7. Institutions, Markets and Economic Development; Institutions in economic development; Markets; Institutions and markets in the human development approach; 8. Democracy and Political Participation; A mechanism for exercising agency in public sphere; The value of democracy; From democratic theory to practice; Public reasoning. 
505 8 |a Political participation at the global level9. Education; Human capital; Human capital and the capability approaches compared; Applying the capability approach to education; Untitled; 10. Health; What is health?; Conventional approaches to health; Health within the human development and capability approach; Health at the heart of inter-locking deprivations; 11. Culture and Religion; Part I Culture; Development perspectives; Anthropological perspectives; Human development perspectives; Part II Religion; The Protestant ethic approach; Religion as moral base; Religion as human right. 
505 8 |a Religion as dimension of well-beingFaith-based organizations; The possibility of reasoning; Part III: Policy; 12. Human Development Policy Analysis; Main areas of public policy; Policy in the private, non-profit and international sectors; Politics and power; Tools for policy analysis; A human development perspective; 13. Policy Case Studies; A personal narrative of a woman's life in Ghana; Gender policy in Turkey; Fiscal policy in Syria; Security policy in Haiti; Technical assistance policy in Afghanistan; Post-conflict policy in Liberia. 
500 |a Appendix 1: Teaching the human development and capability approach: Some pedagogical implications. 
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