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 | | Valuing Freedoms: Sen's Capability Approach and Poverty Reduction by Sabina Alkire ISBN-10: 9780199245796 ISBN-10: 0-19-924579-7 ISBN-13: 9780199245796 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-924579-6 Hardcover 2002-05-23 Oxford University Press, USA Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description 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. | ||