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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 econometr

Introduction / Sabina Alkire, Mozaffar Qizilbash and Flavio Comim -- Using the capability approach: prospective and evaluative analyses / Sabina Alkire -- pt. I. Concept -- Amartya Sen's capability view: insightful sketch or distorted picture? / Mozaffar Qizilbash -- Sen's capability approach and feminist concerns / Ingrid Robeyns -- Beyond individual freedom and agency: structures of living together in the capability approach / Severine Deneulin -- Does identity matter? On the relevance of identity and interaction for capabilities / Miriam Teschl and Laurent Derobert -- Measuring capabilities / Flavio Comim -- pt. II. Measures -- Do concepts matter? An empirical investigation of the differences between a capability and a monetary assessment of poverty / Caterina Ruggeri Laderchi -- Social exclusion in the EU: a capability-based approach / Fotis Papadopoulos and Panos Tsakloglou -- Complexity and vagueness in the capability approach: strengths or weaknesses? / Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti -- Operationalising Sen's capability approach: the influence of the selected technique / Sara Lelli -- Operationalizing capabilities in a segmented society: the role of institutions / Kanchan Chopra and Anantha Kumar Duraiappah -- pt. III. Applications -- Democracy, decentralisation and access to basic services: an elaboration on Sen's capability approach / Santosh Mehrotra -- Reinforcing households' capabilities as a way to reduce vulnerability and prevent poverty in equitable terms / Jean-Luc Dubois and Sophie Rousseau -- Capabilities over the lifecourse: at what age does poverty damage most? / Shahin Yaqub -- Social policy and the ability to appear in public without shame: Some lessons from a food relief programme in Kinshasa / Tom De Herdt -- capability approach and gendered education: some issues of operationalisation in the context of the HIV/AIDs epidemic in South Africa / Elaine Unterhalter -- Women and poverty in Mozambique: is there a gender bias in capabilities, employment conditions and living standards? / Pier Giorgio Ardeni and Antonio Andracchio -- From the quantity to the quality of employment: an application of the capability approach to the Chilean labour market / Kirsten Sehnbruch.

development; Sen's capability approach; poverty; mortality; economic insecurity

1. The Human Development and Capability Approach – The Role of Empowerment and Participation -- 2. The Practice of Participation and the Capability Approach -- 3. Power and Deliberative Participation in Sen's Capability Approach -- 4. Balancing Pessimism of the Intellect and Optimism of the Will: Some Reflections on the Capability Approach, Gender, Empowerment and Education -- 5. Notions of Empowerment and Participation: Contributions from and to the Capability Approach -- 6. Process and Outcomes: participation and empowerment in a multidimensional poverty framework -- 7. Participatory Development: A Sustainable Approach for Reducing Inequality and Fighting Poverty? The Example of Disability Policies in Afghanistan -- 8. Children and Youth Participation in Decision Making and Research Processes -- 9. The Integrated Capabilities Framework: Exploring Multiculturalism and Human Well-Being in Participatory Settings -- 10. Participatory Research Methods and the Capability Approach: Researching the Housing Dimensions of Squatter Upgrading Programmes in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil -- 11. Participatory Monitoring of Development Projects in the South Pacific -- 12. Planning and Managing for Human Development: What Contribution Can the Capability Approach Make? -- 13. Emancipatory Research as Empowerment: An Illustration from a Research Study of Persons with Disabilities in Palestine -- 14. Capability Development and Decentralisation -- 15. Participation, Empowerment and Capabilities: Key Lessons and Future Challenges

Drawing on the fields of ethics, economics and international law, this text provides a cross-disciplinary framework for thinking about poverty and human rights, in which Vizard shows how the work of Amartya Sen has expanded and deepened human rights discourse across traditional disciplinary divides

Was ist Armut? Dieser Frage widmet sich dieses Buch und diskutiert eingehend Amartya Sen's Theorie. Seinem "Befähigungsansatz" (Capability Approach) folgend, wird Armut in Mosambik empirisch re-evaluiert und multidimensional berechnet. Die Studie kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass Mosambikaner/innen "Befähigungen" in den vier Kerndimensionen von Armut fehlen (in den politischen, humanen, sozialen und ökonomischen Domänen). Folglich leben weit mehr Menschen in multidimensionaler "Befähigungs-Armut" als die offizielle verbrauchbasierte Armutsmessung in Mosambik suggeriert. Der Autor zeigt auf, wie Sen's normativer Armutsansatz am Beispiel Mosambiks empirisch operationalisiert werden kann, um eine grundlegendere Erkenntnis über die Wesensmerkmale der Armut zu erreichen

Was ist Armut? Dieser Frage widmet sich dieses Buch und diskutiert eingehend Amartya Sen's Theorie. Seinem "Befähigungsansatz" (Capability Approach) folgend, wird Armut in Mosambik empirisch re-evaluiert und multidimensional berechnet. Die Studie kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass Mosambikaner/innen "Befähigungen" in den vier Kerndimensionen von Armut fehlen (in den politischen, humanen, sozialen und ökonomischen Domänen). Folglich leben weit mehr Menschen in multidimensionaler "Befähigungs-Armut" als die offizielle verbrauchbasierte Armutsmessung in Mosambik suggeriert. Der Autor zeigt auf, wie Sen's normativer Armutsansatz am Beispiel Mosambiks empirisch operationalisiert werden kann, um eine grundlegendere Erkenntnis über die Wesensmerkmale der Armut zu erreichen

"Modern work on the 'capability approach' (or 'capabilities approach') dates from Amartya Sen's 1979 Tanner Lecture on 'Equality of What?' which addressed a central question for egalitarians: what should egalitarians seek to equalise? In this context Sen suggested that 'what is missing in all this ... is some notion of "basic capabilities": a person being able to do certain basic things' (Sen 1982: 367). This insight was further developed in Sen's writings on development, normative economics and moral and political philosophy. Martha Nussbaum's engagement with Sen's work and her endorsement of the approach also contributed to the expansion of interest in this area. Subsequently, the approach has inspired a large and growing literature across many disciplines, encompassing both theoretical and empirical domains, and including work which is relevant to policy makers"--

"Sociological Theory and Capability Approach connects normative strands of sociological theory to the fusion of ethics and economics proposed by Amartya Sen's and Martha Nussbaum's capability approach. Spanning classical (Hegel, Marx, Durkheim, Scheler, Weber) and contemporary debates (Parsons, Giddens, Luhmann) it identifies areas that bridge the current gap between sociology and capability approach. It thus builds on explanatory and normative concerns shared by both traditions. Engaging readers from sociology and capability approach, Spiros Gangas suggests that the proposed dialogue should be layered along the main areas of value theory, economy and society, extending this inquiry into the normative meaning attached to being human. To this end, the book reconstructs the notion of agency along the tracks of Nussbaum's central human capabilities, considering also alienation and the sociology of emotions. It concludes by addressing the capability approach through the lens of social institutions before it takes up the challenge of ideological fundamentalism and how it can be effectively confronted by capability approach. This original book provides a fresh perspective on capability approach as it embeds it in the rich pool of sociological theory's accomplishments. As an exercise in theoretical and normative convergence, it will be required reading for academics and students in social theory, cultural theory, philosophy and human development studies"--

Forty years ago Amartya Sen delivered his Tanner Lecture, 'Equality of What?', in which he introduced to the world a novel approach to the idea of equality by way of the notion of 'basic capability' as 'a morally relevant dimension'. We can now see with hindsight that Sen's argument - that we should focus upon equality of basic capabilities ('a person being able to do certain basic things') - launched what has become an academic armada now proceeding under the flag of 'the capability approach'. While that flag has ventured far and wide and engaged many area of inquiry, this volume of essays is the first to explore how the capability approach (the CA) might shed light upon labour law.0Three dimensions of the CA's potential for illuminating labour law are examined. Part I enquires into the nature of the basic relationship between CA and labour law - do they share common ground or disagree about what is important? Can the CA provide a normative 'foundation' for labour law? Part II goes further by examining the relationship of the CA and other well-established perspectives on labour law, including economics, history, critical theory, restorative justice, and human rights. 0Part III examines the possible relevance of the CA to a range of specific labour law issues, such as freedom of association, age discrimination in the workplace, trade, employment policy, and sweatshop goods

Flexicurity is a European policy agenda seeking to increase both flexibility and security in the labour-market. This book argues that it needs a revision: Although flexicurity is set out to change the way Europeans work and live, and even though it is being justified by workers' needs, flexicurity lacks of a clear and democratically justified vision of society. Flexicurity is confronted here with Amartya Sen's capability-approach, a paradigm of well-being evaluation. How is flexicurity related to a concept of employment as part of a way of life which people have reason to value? How capability-friendly are established flexicurity-indicators? It is thus shown how the capability-approach can be used in the field of labour-market and social policy.