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Zusatztext "This is an ambitious and challenging book." Informationen zum Autor Sabina Alkire is currently a researcher with the Global Equity Initiative, Harvard University. Previously she has worked for the Commission on Human Security, coordinated the culture-poverty learning and research initiative at the World Bank, and developed participatory impact assessment methodologies with Oxfam and the Asia Foundation in Pakistan. Klappentext 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 to authentic participation. A participatory procedure for identifying capability change is then developed. Case studies of three Oxfam activities in Pakistan--goat-rearing! female literacy! and rose cultivation--illustrate this novel approach. Zusammenfassung 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 so that the voices and values of the poor matter. This provides economists, philosophers, theologians, and development practitioners with a way forward that addresses both theoretical and practical challenges. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: INTRODUCTION: CAPABILITY AND VALUATION 2: POVERTY AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT 3: RANGE INFORMATION AND PROCESS 4: PARTICIPATION AND CULTURE 5: BASIC NEEDS AND BASIC CAPABILITIES 6: ASSESSING CAPABILITY CHANGE 7: THREE CASE STUDIES
