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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

Intro -- Dedication -- Foreword -- Preface -- Praise for The Capability Approach, Empowerment and Participation -- Contents -- Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Human Development and the Capability Approach: The Role of Empowerment and Participation -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Similarities, Limitations and Complementarities -- 1.2.1 Similarities -- 1.2.2 Limitations -- 1.2.3 Complementarities -- 1.3 Participation Within the Capability Approach Literature -- 1.3.1 Capability: Participation and Researching Well-Being -- 1.3.2 Capability: Participation and Adaptive Preferences -- 1.4 Content and Structure of the Book -- 1.4.1 Conceptual and Foundational Issues -- 1.4.2 Methods and Practice -- 1.4.3 Conclusions for Local and Global Development -- References -- Part II: Conceptual Foundations -- Chapter 2: The Practice of Participation and the Capability Approach -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 What Is Participation Anyway?6 -- 2.3 Recent Trends Decrease Effective Participation -- 2.3.1 Securitization of Aid -- 2.3.2 Development Workers and Security -- 2.3.3 Big Business -- 2.4 Creating Effective Participation -- 2.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Power and Deliberative Participation in Sen's Capability Approach -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Power as Capability and Public Deliberation -- 3.3 Sen's Capability Approach and Public Reason -- 3.4 The Idea of Power in The Idea of Justice -- 3.5 Final Remark: 'Room for Both Ideas' -- References -- Chapter 4: Balancing Pessimism of the Intellect and Optimism of the Will: Some Reflections on the Capability Approach, Gender, Empowerment, and Education -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Education and Empowerment: A History of Co-optation? -- 4.3 Some Moments in the History of Empowerment -- 4.4 Empowerment, Capabilities, and Education.

" The ""capability approach"" of development economist Amartya Sen, who received the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998, poses a major challenge to the dominant paradigm of neo-classical economics. According to Sen, human well-being does not depend on the consumption of commodities but on the freedoms human beings have reason to choose and value. The capability approach has frequently been criticised for a lack of attention to the ways in which unjust social, political and economic structures restrict human capabilities. The contributors to this volume take up this criticism in a number of ways, both theoretical and practical. The theoretical discussion engages with the thought of Sen himself and with the hermeneutical tradition represented by Paul Ricoeur. The practical discussion consists of five case studies examining the effectiveness of the capability approach in dealing with cases of structural injustice. These cover: racism in South Africa, access to labour markets in Europe, participation in higher education in the UK, poverty and welfare reforms in the US, and biotechnology patents. How effectively, ask all the contributors, can Sen's capability approach be deployed in the transformation of unjust structures? "

This book provides a major new cross-disciplinary framework for thinking about poverty and human rights. Drawing on the fields of ethics, economics, and international law, Vizard demonstrates how the work of Nobel Laureate 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"--

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 explores how the capability approach (the CA) might shed light upon labour law.

"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"--