Capability Promoting Policies

Author : Otto, Hans-Uwe,Walker, Melanie
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447334330

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Capability-promoting policies by Otto, Hans-Uwe,Walker, Melanie Pdf

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.

Author : Otto, Hans-Uwe,Walker, Melanie
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447334323

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Capability-promoting policies by Otto, Hans-Uwe,Walker, Melanie Pdf

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.

Author : Séverine Deneulin,Lila Shahani
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781844078066

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An Introduction to the Human Development and Capability Approach by Séverine Deneulin,Lila Shahani Pdf

First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Yerkes, Mara,Javornik, Jana
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447341802

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Social Policy and the Capability Approach by Yerkes, Mara,Javornik, Jana Pdf

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.

Author : Ingrid Robeyns
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781783744244

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Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice by Ingrid Robeyns Pdf

How do we evaluate ambiguous concepts such as wellbeing, freedom, and social justice? How do we develop policies that offer everyone the best chance to achieve what they want from life? The capability approach, a theoretical framework pioneered by the philosopher and economist Amartya Sen in the 1980s, has become an increasingly influential way to think about these issues. Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice: The Capability Approach Re-Examined is both an introduction to the capability approach and a thorough evaluation of the challenges and disputes that have engrossed the scholars who have developed it. Ingrid Robeyns offers her own illuminating and rigorously interdisciplinary interpretation, arguing that by appreciating the distinction between the general capability approach and more specific capability theories or applications we can create a powerful and flexible tool for use in a variety of academic disciplines and fields of policymaking. This book provides an original and comprehensive account that will appeal to scholars of the capability approach, new readers looking for an interdisciplinary introduction, and those interested in theories of justice, human rights, basic needs, and the human development approach.

Author : Reiko Gotoh
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811551406

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The Ethics and Economics of the Capability Approach by Reiko Gotoh Pdf

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.

Author : Hans-Uwe Otto,Holger Ziegler
Publisher : Barbara Budrich
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Education and state
ISBN : 3847400770

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Enhancing Capabilities by Hans-Uwe Otto,Holger Ziegler Pdf

This volume suggests a capability perspective for evaluating welfare and educational policies. Capabilities are conceptualized as people's freedom to choose and conduct a life they have reason to value. The book's contributions analyze what social institutions may provide - in particular, in the field of education and welfare - in order to enhance capabilities in particular for most vulnerable people. Contents include: (Part I) Welfare - Connecting 'Human' and 'Social Discourses: The Human Development, Human Security, and Social Quality Approaches * Implications for a Capability-Based Social Policy: A European Perspective * The Local Dimension in Labor Market Policies: Promoting Autonomy or Enforcing Compliance? * Enabling Local Actors in Labor market Policy in Germany: Lessons from a Case Study on the Reintegration of Disadvantaged Youth * Governmental Poverty and Wealth Reporting Based on the Capability Approach; (Part II) Education - Subjectivity, Education and Capabilities: Education as an Essential Dimension of Welfare Politics Which Are Aimed at Enhancing Capabilities * Constrained Opportunities and Principles of Justice in Action: The Role of School Actors in Helping Technical Students Finding a Work Experience * Hidden Privatization and Its Impacts on Public Education * Nussbaum's Capabilities, Gender Justice and Education Transformations

Author : Matt Andrews,Lant Pritchett,Michael J. V. Woolcock
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198747482

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Building State Capability by Matt Andrews,Lant Pritchett,Michael J. V. Woolcock Pdf

Introduction : the "long voyage of discovery" -- The big stuck in state capability -- Looking like a state : the seduction of isomorphic mimicry -- Premature load bearing : doing too much too soon -- Capability for policy implementation -- What type of organization capability is needed? -- The challenge of building (real) state capability for implementation -- Doing problem-driven work -- The searchframe : doing experimental iterations -- Managing your authorizing environment -- Building state capability at scale through groups.

Author : S. Deneulin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230627253

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The Capability Approach and the Praxis of Development by S. Deneulin Pdf

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.

Author : Francesca Panzironi,Katharine Gelber
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415685733

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The Capability Approach by Francesca Panzironi,Katharine Gelber Pdf

This book examines the application of the capability approach in development practice and in public policy, focussing on its adoption in the Asia-Pacific region, in both developed and developing countries.

Author : Flavio Comim,Mozaffar Qizilbash,Sabina Alkire
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521862876

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The Capability Approach by Flavio Comim,Mozaffar Qizilbash,Sabina Alkire Pdf

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.

Author : Melanie Walker,Monica McLean
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136188121

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Professional Education, Capabilities and the Public Good by Melanie Walker,Monica McLean Pdf

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.

Author : National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Development, Security, and Cooperation,Committee on Science and Technology Capabilities at the Department of State
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780309373166

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Diplomacy for the 21st Century by National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Development, Security, and Cooperation,Committee on Science and Technology Capabilities at the Department of State Pdf

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.

Author : Sathāban Wičhai phư̄a Kānphatthanā Prathēt Thai. Science and Technology Development Program
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Economic development projects
ISBN : UCSD:31822030227698

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The Development of Thailand's Technological Capability in Industry by Sathāban Wičhai phư̄a Kānphatthanā Prathēt Thai. Science and Technology Development Program Pdf

Author : John RAWLS
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674042605

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A Theory of Justice by John RAWLS Pdf

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.