Amartya Sen's Capability Approach

Amartya Sen's Capability Approach
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 128
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ISBN-10 : 9783540280835
ISBN-13 : 3540280839
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Download or read book Amartya Sen's Capability Approach written by Wiebke Kuklys and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-10-04 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kuklys examines how Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen’s approach to welfare measurement can be put in practice for poverty and inequality measurement in affluent societies such as the UK. Sen argues that an individual’s welfare should not be measured in terms of her income, but in terms what she can actually do or be, her capabilities. In Chapters 1 and 2, Kuklys describes the capability approach from a standard welfare economic point of view and provides a comprehensive literature review of the empirical applications in this area of research. In the remaining chapters, novel econometric techniques are employed to operationalise the concepts of functionings and capability to investigate inequality and poverty in terms of capability in the UK. Kuklys finds that capability measurement is always a useful complement to traditional monetary analysis, and particularly so in the case of capability-deprived disabled individuals.


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