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Capability-Promoting Policies

Author : Hans-Uwe Otto
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447334310
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Capability-Promoting Policies written by Hans-Uwe Otto and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2017-11-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most current social welfare policies aim to ameliorate immediate problems or injustices, but they do little to foster human development or support the potential of people within marginalized communities. How can we more effectively use public policy to foster human development? How can we overcome the injustice of contemporary society and give people across the social and class spectrum equal opportunities to flourish? Capability-Promoting Policies offers case studies and analyses of a number of different existing approaches to these questions, presenting newly conceptualized strategies for developing and implementing effective policies for fostering human development at the local, national, and international levels.

Capability-Promoting Policies

Author : Hans-Uwe Otto
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447334329
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Capability-Promoting Policies written by Hans-Uwe Otto and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2017-11-08 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can unjust societies be overcome with a better distribution of opportunities to flourish? How can human development be revitalised in countries where social welfare is being questioned? In short, how can human development be fostered in practice? These are some of the important questions asked in this volume through analysis of existing policies and conceptualisations of coherent and systematic strategies for human development policies at the local, national and international level. International contributors innovatively combine the hitherto unpaired perspectives of the capability approach and the tradition of critical social policy with empirical examples using case studies from South-Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and North and South America. The result is a call for a new, feasible approach towards more socially balanced, democratic and innovative capability-promoting policy activities, models and programmes that reduce social and human suffering to promote an enhanced social quality of current societies around the world.

Social Policy and the Capability Approach

Author : Anna Kurowska
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447341783
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Social Policy and the Capability Approach written by Anna Kurowska and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The capability approach, an increasingly popular conceptual and theoretical framework focused on what individuals are able to do and be, offers a unique evaluative perspective to social policy analysis. This book explores the advantages of this approach and offers a way forward in addressing conceptual and empirical issues as they apply specifically to social policy research and practice. Short conceptual and empirical chapters provide clear examples of how policies shape the capabilities of different groups and individuals, critically assessing the efficacy of different social policies across multiple social policy fields, providing both academic and practitioner viewpoints.

An Introduction to the Human Development and Capability Approach

Author : Severine Deneulin
Publisher : Earthscan
ISBN 13 : 1849770026
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (497 download)

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Book Synopsis An Introduction to the Human Development and Capability Approach by : Severine Deneulin

Download or read book An Introduction to the Human Development and Capability Approach written by Severine Deneulin and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 2009 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the publication of Nobel Laureate Amartya Sens flagship book "Development as Freedom," development has been redefined in terms of human capability and opportunity. This approach has come to underpin the United Nations Development Programs influential Human Development Reports, and has had considerable significance in both academic and policy circles.

Building State Capability

Author : Matt Andrews
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198747489
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Building State Capability written by Matt Andrews and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Governments play a major role in the development process, and constantly introduce reforms and policies to achieve developmental objectives. Many of these interventions have limited impact, however; schools get built but children don't learn, IT systems are introduced but not used, plans are written but not implemented. These achievement deficiencies reveal gaps in capabilities, and weaknesses in the process of building state capability. This book addresses these weaknesses and gaps. It starts by providing evidence of the capability shortfalls that currently exist in many countries, showing that many governments lack basic capacities even after decades of reforms and capacity building efforts. The book then analyses this evidence, identifying capability traps that hold many governments back - particularly related to isomorphic mimicry (where governments copy best practice solutions from other countries that make them look more capable even if they are not more capable) and premature load bearing (where governments adopt new mechanisms that they cannot actually make work, given weak extant capacities). The book then describes a process that governments can use to escape these capability traps. Called PDIA (problem driven iterative adaptation), this process empowers people working in governments to find and fit solutions to the problems they face. The discussion about this process is structured in a practical manner so that readers can actually apply tools and ideas to the capability challenges they face in their own contexts. These applications will help readers devise policies and reforms that have more impact than those of the past.

The Capability Approach

Author : Flavio Comim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521862875
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book The Capability Approach written by Flavio Comim and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-24 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The capability approach developed by Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen has become an important new paradigm in thinking about development. However, despite its theoretical and philosophical attractiveness, it has been less easy to measure or to translate into policy. This volume addresses these issues in the context of poverty and justice. Part I offers a set of conceptual essays that debate the strength of the often misunderstood individual focus of the capability approach. Part II investigates the techniques by which we can measure and compare capabilities, and how we can integrate them into poverty comparisons and policy advice. Finally, Part III looks at how we can apply the capability approach to different regions and contexts. Written by a team of international scholars, The Capability Approach is a valuable resource for researchers and graduate students concerned with the debate over the value of the capability approach and its potential applications.

The Ethics and Economics of the Capability Approach

Author : Reiko Gotoh
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811551405
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book The Ethics and Economics of the Capability Approach written by Reiko Gotoh and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-11 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book inquires into the Capability Approach, a value theory of freedom, which crystalizes the interests of Marx, Welfare Economics, Social Choice, and Ethics. The capability approach has attracted many people as a promising interdisciplinary approach to human well-being and social worlds, finely overarching ethical and economic concerns. It has well challenged essential characteristics of welfare economics, which focuses on the criterion of efficiency with the concept of utility, by explicitly incorporating normative criteria such as agency, well-being and real freedom into positive analysis. However, it has a bit operational and methodological difficulties such that how to estimate an individual capability set which includes potential multi-dimensional functioning vectors. This book reminds the reader of what traditional economics has left behind, by examining historical backgrounds, scrutinizing philosophical foundations and providing an operational formulation of the capability approach: indispensable for understanding what the capability approach is about and what it can achieve.

Critical Social Policy and the Capability Approach

Author : Hans-Uwe Otto
Publisher : Verlag Barbara Budrich
ISBN 13 : 9783847406112
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Critical Social Policy and the Capability Approach written by Hans-Uwe Otto and published by Verlag Barbara Budrich. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The (European) welfare state, as well as the political space of "the social," is currently being reorganized in a fundamental way. This has major implications for any attempt to contribute to a more just or even emancipatory way of shaping "the social." This book discusses what the Capabilities Approach may contribute to the attempt. Rather than assessing the philosophical foundation of this approach, the book critically discusses the potentials and pitfalls of analyzing social and labor-market policy and, in particular, social services from a capabilities perspective. --Provided by publisher.

The Capability Approach and the Praxis of Development

Author : S. Deneulin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230627250
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Book Synopsis The Capability Approach and the Praxis of Development by : S. Deneulin

Download or read book The Capability Approach and the Praxis of Development written by S. Deneulin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-01-27 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines the extent to which Amartya Sen's conception of 'development as freedom' can be a guide for development policy. It argues that the theoretical foundations of the conception need to be expanded, and that it needs to give more attention to collective and historical dimensions if it is to address poverty effectively.

Professional Education, Capabilities and the Public Good

Author : Melanie Walker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136188118
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book Professional Education, Capabilities and the Public Good written by Melanie Walker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book innovatively explores how universities might be engines of reform and be directed towards social change. Using rich case studies drawn from South African research, the book comprehensively provides a myriad of new perspectives on what constitutes a set of appropriate public-good professional capabilities that will translate successfully into contributions to human development. It challenges universities to produce professionals who have the knowledge, skills and values to improve the lives of people living in poverty in urban and rural settings. It covers issues such as: Conceptualising Public-Good Professionalism Global Issues and Professional Education South African Debates about Higher Education Institutional conditions and professional education arrangements Social Constraints on educating ethically aware public professionals By drawing on an approach that focuses on differing public-good professional capabilities in five professions, this book produces a crucial new framework for the preparation of professionals relevant to the global study of higher education policy. It expands higher education’s contribution to global social justice beyond a concern with human capital, administering a challenge to higher education internationally to address human development in the 21st century. This book will be of great interest to all scholars of higher education involved in higher education studies, comparative education, and development studies. It will also prove valuable to policy makers, higher education leaders and lecturers and graduate professionals in diverse organizations.

A Theory of Justice

Author : John RAWLS
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674042603
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book A Theory of Justice written by John RAWLS and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though the revised edition of A Theory of Justice, published in 1999, is the definitive statement of Rawls's view, so much of the extensive literature on Rawls's theory refers to the first edition. This reissue makes the first edition once again available for scholars and serious students of Rawls's work.

Diplomacy for the 21st Century

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309373166
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Diplomacy for the 21st Century written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diplomacy for the 21st Century recommends steps that the Department of State should embrace to take full advantage of the leading science and technology (S&T) capabilities of the United States. These capabilities provide the department with many opportunities to promote a variety of the interests of the United States and its allies in a rapidly changing world wherein S&T are important drivers of economic development at home and abroad and help ensure international security. This report assesses and makes recommendations concerning the changing environment for the conduct of diplomacy in the years ahead, with a focus on the role of S&T in the development and implementation of U.S. policies and programs. According to this report, prompt steps by the department's leadership are essential to ensure adequate comprehension of the importance of S&T-related developments throughout the world and to incorporate this understanding within the nation's foreign policy for the 21st century. This report also urges the adoption by the department of a broader whole-of-society approach in carrying out its responsibilities at home and abroad - extending beyond traditional interagency coordination and the narrow band of current external partners to include foundations, universities, research centers, and other groups who are extending their international reach.

The Idea of Justice

Author : Amartya Sen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674060474
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Idea of Justice written by Amartya Sen and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an analysis of what justice is, the transcendental theory of justice and its drawbacks, and a persuasive argument for a comparative perspective on justice that can guide us in the choice between alternatives.

Youth, Gender and the Capabilities Approach to Development

Author : Aurora Lopez-Fogues
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315306336
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)

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Book Synopsis Youth, Gender and the Capabilities Approach to Development by : Aurora Lopez-Fogues

Download or read book Youth, Gender and the Capabilities Approach to Development written by Aurora Lopez-Fogues and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Youth, Gender and the Capabilities Approach to Development investigates to what extent young people have access to fair opportunities, the factors influencing their aspirations, and how able they are to pursue these aspirations and to carry out their life plans. The book positions itself in the intersection between capabilities, youth and gender, in recognition of the fact that without gender equality, capabilities cannot be universal and development strategies are likely to fail to achieve their full objectives. Within the framework of the human development and capabilities approach, Youth, Gender and the Capabilities Approach to Development focuses on examples in the areas of education, political spaces, and social practices that confront inequality and injustice head on, by seeking to advance young people’s capabilities and their agency to make valuable life plans. The book focuses how youth policies and issues can be approached globally from a capabilities-friendly perspective; arguing for the promotion of freedoms and opportunities both in educational and political spheres, with the aim of developing a more just world. With a range of studies from multiple and diverse national contexts, including Russia, Spain, South Africa, Tanzania, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Colombia, India and Argentina, this important multidisciplinary collection will be of interest to researchers within youth studies, gender studies and development studies, as well as to policy makers and NGOs.

The Cambridge Handbook of the Capability Approach

Author : Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108882889
Total Pages : 966 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of the Capability Approach written by Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-19 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark handbook collects in a single volume the current state of cutting-edge research on the capability approach. It includes a comprehensive introduction to the approach as well as new research from leading scholars in this increasingly influential multi-disciplinary field, including the pioneers of capability research, Martha C. Nussbaum and Amartya Sen. Incorporating both approachable introductory chapters and more in-depth analysis relating to the central philosophical, conceptual and theoretical issues of capability research, this handbook also includes analytical and measurement tools, as well as policy approaches which have emerged in the recent literature. The handbook will be an invaluable resource for students approaching the capability approach for the first time as well as for researchers engaged in advanced research in a wide range of disciplines, including development studies, economics, gender studies, political science and political philosophy.

Amartya Sen's Capability Approach and Social Justice in Education

Author : Melanie Walker
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230604811
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Amartya Sen's Capability Approach and Social Justice in Education written by Melanie Walker and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-07-09 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling book introduces Nobel laureate Amartya Sen's capability approach and explores its significance for theory, policy and practice in education. The book looks particularly at questions concerning the education of children, gender equality, and higher education. Contributors hail from the UK, USA, Australia, Italy and Mexico.

A Multidisciplinary Approach to Capability in Age and Ageing

Author : Hanna Falk Erhag
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030780635
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book A Multidisciplinary Approach to Capability in Age and Ageing written by Hanna Falk Erhag and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-10 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book provides insight on how to interpret capability in ageing – one’s individual ability to perform actions in order to reach goals one has reason to value – from a multidisciplinary approach. With for the first time in history there being more people in the world aged 60 years and over than there are children below the age of 5, the book describes this demographic trends as well as the large global challenges and important societal implications this will have such as a worldwide increase in the number of persons affected with dementia, and in the ratio of retired persons to those still in the labor market. Through contributions from many different research areas, it discussed how capability depends on interactions between the individual (e.g. health, genetics, personality, intellectual capacity), environment (e.g. family, friends, home, work place), and society (e.g. political decisions, ageism, historical period). The final chapter summarizes the differences and similarities in these contributions. As such this book provides an interesting read for students, teachers and researchers at different levels and from different fields interested in capability and multidisciplinary research.