Valuing Freedoms: Sen's Capability Approach and Poverty Reduction

by Sabina Alkire

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0199283311

ISBN13:9780199283316

Release Date:May 2005

Publisher:OUP Oxford

Length:352 Pages

Weight:1.45 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.3" x 9.1"

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