Capabilities and Constraints

Nambiar, Shankaran

doi:10.1007/s12143-010-9082-5

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“…Agency is the ability to pursue goals that one values and has reason to value (Alkire and Deneulin, 2009 Nambiar (2011) similarly suggests that the interaction between the agency and well-being of individuals is defined by the social constraints they face. By observing the different factors that potentially impact an individual's or household's degree of agency one can begin to uncover how particular asset endowments translate into economic livelihood.…”

Section: (C) Observing Intrinsic Ability As Agencymentioning

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Converting Asset Holdings into Livelihood: An Empirical Study on the Role of Household Agency in South Africa

Anderson

2012

World Development

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This paper analyzes the complexities of converting assets into livelihood and the role that agency constraints play. Drawing inspiration from the capabilities approach and using household data from South Africa, linkages between assets and agency are identified by decomposing asset endowments' impact on future livelihood. By employing a method of path analysis akin to early heritability of traits studies, theoretical asset-based studies of chronic poverty are bridged with capabilities literatures. The interaction between assets and agency is shown to be as important as asset-to-asset complementarities. The results have wide ranging policy implications.

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Section: (C) Observing Intrinsic Ability As Agencymentioning

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Converting Asset Holdings into Livelihood: An Empirical Study on the Role of Household Agency in South Africa

Anderson

2012

World Development

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“…With the CA, Sen (2009) creates a connection between resources and freedom (opportunities). This can be a tool for anticipating possible constraints that are embedded in 'conversion factors', namely the degree of restriction or freedom given for converting resources (personal, social and environmental) into functionings (see Nambiar, 2011;Sen, 2009). Sen (2009) suggests three 'conversion factors' that envisage a possibility to restrict or encourage the conversion of resources into functionings: personal characteristics (e.g.…”

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“…social norms, cultures, government policy) and environmental characteristics (e.g. the provision of public goods and facilities) (see also Nambiar, 2011;Robeyns, 2005;Walker, 2006). Hence, comments from the participants indicate constraints that are embedded within the conversion factor of environmental characteristics.…”

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Bridging homes and classrooms: advancing students’ capabilities

Sugiono¹,

Skourdoumbis

Gale

2017

Teaching Education

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This paper investigates the capabilities of remote rural teachers in Indonesia's Probolinggo Regency to make meaningful pedagogic connections between students' homes and their classrooms. The term capabilities is derived from Sen's and Nussbaum's capabilities approach, which refers to substantive freedom or opportunities that a person holds to do and to be a certain thing that he or she considers valuable (Nussbaum, 2006; Sen, 1999). Informed by the capabilities approach (CA), the study involved classroom observations, teacher interviews and examination of Indonesian curriculum documents (teachers' syllabi and lesson plans). Making connections between homes and classrooms enables students to critically engage in their learning and makes knowledge more meaningful about solving real-life issues or problems. Teachers need to accommodate 'local' knowledge that exists in homes and communities thereby strengthening relationships between communities and schools; something synonymous with social justice aspects of the CA. Data generated for the study indicate that teachers encounter significant impediments in making connections between homes (communities) and classrooms (schools). In addition, while participants demonstrate that they are in part committed to the notions of 'connections' and 'inclusivity', their classroom practices still need strengthening in their adherence to the general substance of the CA.

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Capabilities and Communities: A Perspective from Institutional Economics

Nambiar¹

2021

Eur J Dev Res

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The purpose of this paper is to argue that the capability approach can benefit from thinking in institutional economics. If the locus of the capability approach is moved from the individual to groups or communities, then it is imperative that institutions (conceived as formal and informal rules) be explicitly considered when applying the framework, particularly when social relations matter, as in microcredit or poverty alleviation. Rules underpin transactions and behaviour in society, so it stands to reason that capability improvement, or its lack, be examined from the vantage point of rules as understood by institutional economics. Applying institutional economics to the capability approach will open up different ways of analysing capabilities in communities.

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Capabilities and Constraints

Abstract: Capability approach, Functionings, Constraints, Structuration theory,

Cited by 5 publications

References 18 publications

Converting Asset Holdings into Livelihood: An Empirical Study on the Role of Household Agency in South Africa

Converting Asset Holdings into Livelihood: An Empirical Study on the Role of Household Agency in South Africa

Bridging homes and classrooms: advancing students’ capabilities

Capabilities and Communities: A Perspective from Institutional Economics

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