Journal of the national institute for career education and. Jun, 2008 ebook is an electronic version of a traditional print book that can be read by using a personal computer or by using an ebook reader. Therefore, this paper attempts to compare sen s and nussbaum s capability approach by focusing on their core concepts, main arguments and rationality of the criticism of the approach. Rabindranath tagore gave amartya sen his name bengali. Therefore, this paper attempts to compare sens and nussbaums capability approach by focusing on their core concepts, main arguments and rationality of the criticism of the approach. The foundation of sens and nussbaums development ethic, part 2, women, culture, and. We wish to thank all the contributors to this issue of migration policy practice, and in particular. Sens family was from wari and manikganj, dhaka, both in presentday bangladesh. Furthermore, both human rights and capabilities have to depend on the process of public reasoning. Both capability theorists and external critics express concern that the content and structure of sens capability approach is undertheorised and this makes it unsuitable as a theory of justice. Hd used sens phrase that the objective of development is to expand capabilities and simplified it to expand peoples choices. Development in practice sens capability approach as a. The concept has directly influenced the workings of both the international united nations development programme and the uks domestic equality and human rights commission. Distance and elearning, social justice, and development.
The capability approach also referred to as the capabilities approach is an economic theory conceived in the 1980s as an alternative approach to welfare economics. Sens capability approach 11,12 could provide a possible solution to the limitations discussed above, in that it expands the evaluation space to consider whether a programme enhances an individuals capability. Despite its attractions which the article acknowledges the capability approach. Sens idea of justice 2009 moves beyond capability approach which articulated the space in which to evaluate wellbeing, and towards a welfare economics, with multiple dimensions in capability space, as well as principles, and processes. The capability approach stanford encyclopedia of philosophy. The appearance of sens capability approach as a new paradigm to understand human development, poverty and inequality meant a shift in the measures used to capture these concepts. Abstract building on sens capabilities approach this paper focuses on the united nations principles for responsible management education prme to assess whether current developments in management education have the capacity to contribute to the promulgation of an inclusive development that moves beyond the discourse of growth and income. The capability approach views functionings and capabilities as the best metric for most kinds of interpersonal evaluations. Hence, human development can be seen as the process of expansion of peoples capabilities.
We describe amartya sen s capability approach to welfare evaluation in the language of standard welfare economics, and assess to what extent it provides a genuine alternative for individual welfare measurement and policy evaluation. May 06, 2010 sens capability approach 11,12 could provide a possible solution to the limitations discussed above, in that it expands the evaluation space to consider whether a programme enhances an individuals capability. In sens approach, capability is the ability or the opportunity to choose specific functionings claassen 2014. The methodology of public scrutiny draws on rawlsian understanding of objectivity in ethics, but the impartiality that is needed cannot be confined within the borders of a nation. An ebook reader can be a software application for use on a computer such as microsoft s free reader application, or a booksized computer that is used solely as a reading device such as nuvomedia s rocket ebook. It is argued that the capability approach can reflect the many ways that human lives are blighted and that it thus offers a promising framework for poverty analysis. Sen s capability approach arose from a dissatisfaction with both of subjective states and command over resources as concepts or measures of wellbeing or advantage, and from the wish for a concept that presents persons as reasoners with the right to make choices. The study applied a cointegration technique based on the granger representation. Outcome measurement in economic evaluations of public health. The capability approach can be applied at two distinct levels of evaluation namely, a assessment of an individuals wellbeing or more generally her advantage encompassing both wellbeing and agency and b assessment of the goodness of a social action or a social arrangement. Concept, application, and scrutiny 6 aristotle, nicomachean ethics, book i, section 7. The foundation of sens and nussbaums development ethic, part. The goal in terms of inequality should be to equalize the opportunities people have, and not the outcomes people obtain.
The capability approach also referred to as the capabilities approach was initially conceived in the 1980s as an approach to welfare economics. The approach that will be used here, which is sometimes called the capability approach, sees human life as a set of doings and beingswe may call them functioningsand it relates the evaluation of the quality of life to the assessment of the capability to function. Capability approach and individualism because the capability approach lays great stress on the importance of individual choice and freedom, there has been some suggestions that the approach is too individualistic in the sense that it ignores the social milieu which shapes individual lives. Sens capability approach and poverty reduction, oxford university press, oxford. In this text we will take sens capability approach as our starting point, and discuss nussbaums work when it criticises, divers from, or adds to sens work. We describe amartya sens capability approach to welfare evaluation in the language of standard welfare economics, and assess to what extent it provides a genuine alternative for individual welfare measurement and policy evaluation. Philosophical premises for african economic development. What is the capability approach its core, rationale. The approach focuses on the set of alternative commodity bundles that can be acquired through legal channels of acquirement. In this approach, amartya sen and martha nussbaum bring together a range of ideas that were previously excluded from or inadequately formulated in traditional approaches to the economics of welfare. Mar 01, 2005 in sen s approach, capability is the ability or the opportunity to choose specific functionings claassen 2014. Sens capability approach as a framework to the practice of development alexandre apsan frediani online publication date. In the second section i analyze, this chapter includes a substantial revision and modification of sections 1.
The first section describes two polarized models of disability that theorize the current practices of inclusive education, as well as alternate models based on a synthesis of the two. Assessing tourism development from sens capability approach. The study developed a model to investigate the relationship between tourism development and human development while focusing on two countries, nicaragua and costa rica. The capability approach is a theoretical framework that entails two core normative claims. Harvard center for population and development studies, 1998. Sens capability approach arose from a dissatisfaction with both of subjective states and command over resources as concepts or measures of wellbeing or advantage, and from the wish for a concept that presents persons as reasoners with the right to make choices. Human rights and capabilities amartya sen amartya sen is lamont university professor at harvard university, cambridge, ma, usa abstract the two concepts human rights and capabilities go well with each other, so long as we do not try to subsume either concept entirely within the territory of the other. Understanding the terms of the capability approach. While there is much theoretical discussion of the application of the capability approach within the health economics. Amartya sens capability approach as an analytic lens. Amartya sen was born in a bengali hindu baidya family in bengal, british india, in rabindranath tagores university shantiniketan, modern day west bengal, india. Reframing inclusive education through the capability. Sens starting point was to find other ways to evaluate wellbeing, poverty and living standards than using an income approach or a utility approach. Martha nussbaum 1988 has illuminatingly analyzed the reach and relevance of the aristotelian approach.
The approach gave birth to the human development paradigm. The purpose of this study is to assess tourism development in the context of sens capability approach. The capability approach has been advanced in somewhat different directions by martha nussbaum, who has used the capability approach as the foundation for a partial theory of justice. The capability approach is a theoretical framework that puts emphasis on the importance of freedom to achieve wellbeing, where freedom to achieve wellbeing is understood in terms of peoples opportunities to choose and how to be. The study applied a cointegration technique based on the granger representation theorem. Sens entitlement approach treats famines as socioeconomic problems rather than food availability problems. In sens original terminology, the notion of capability or. The south african ommunity apability study employs amartya sens capability approach to explore the characteristics of very poor communities. Initially the capability approach was not intended to be a theory about social justice. This is so because the capability approach aims to take into account individual heterogeneity in choice opportunities in addition to income. Within ca, then, evaluation of a public good, such as education, needs to assess the ways in which social inequalities rooted in the cultural or structural context affect peoples abilities to use commodities to enhance their capability set, or combinations of. How does the capability approach relate to human development human development is conceptually founded on the capability approach, and looks to application. An ebook reader can be a software application for use on a computer such as microsofts free reader application, or a booksized computer that is used solely as a reading device such as nuvomedias rocket ebook. Amartya sens capability theory of development and poverty.
Lamont university professor and professor of economics and philosophy, harvard university senior fellow, harvard society of fellows formerly master, trinity college, cambridge, england, 19982003 birth. The capability approach versus the livelihood approach livelihood approach focuses much on the availability of commodities, while the way in which individuals can benefit from the resources matters most. The capabilities approach, adult community learning and. The capability approach offers a framework to assess levels of development from the perspective of the freedom communities have to be and do what they reason to value. It is argued that it is essentially a liberalindividualist concept. Amartya sen pioneered the approach and several others have significantly developed it. Sen does not say which capabilities are important or how they are to be distributed. The capability approach can be applied at two distinct levels of evaluation namely, a assessment of an individuals wellbeing or more generally her advantage encompassing both wellbeing and agency and b assessment of the goodness.
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