Capabilities, well‐being and human development: A survey

Qizilbash, Mozaffar

doi:10.1080/00220389608422460

Cited by 133 publications

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“…It is common to treat human well-being as a multidimensional concept, enveloping diverse, separable or behaviorally distinct components, domains or dimensions (Finnis, 1980;Nussbaum, 1988;Sen, 1990;UNDP, 1990UNDP, -2004Doyal and Gough, 1993;Galtung, 1994;Cummins, 1996;Qizilbash, 1996;Stewart, 1996;Narayan, 2000;Alkire, 2002, among many other studies). 1 It is in particular thought to be a much richer or vital concept than economic well-being: much of the literature is justifiably emphatic about this point.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Measuring Non-Economic Well-Being Achievement

McGillivray

2005

Rev Income Wealth

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Income per capita and most widely reported, non-or non-exclusively income based human well-being indicators are highly correlated among countries. Yet many countries exhibit higher achievement in the latter than predicted by the former. The reverse is true for many other countries. This paper commences by extracting the inter-country variation in a composite of various widely-reported, non-income-based well-being indices not accounted for by variations in income pre capita. This extraction is interpreted inter alia as a measure of non-economic well-being. The paper then looks at correlations between this extraction and a number of new or less widely-used well-being measures, in an attempt to find the measure that best captures these achievements. A number of indicators are examined, including measures of poverty, inequality, health status, education status, gender bias, empowerment, governance and subjective well-being.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Measuring Non-Economic Well-Being Achievement

McGillivray

2005

Rev Income Wealth

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“…Sen's conceptualisation of democracy and public action may be overly optimistic in underplaying the effect of political power (Qizilbash, 1996) and critics have suggested that the approach is too circumspect about identifying the means of securing freedom (Qizilbash, 1996, p. 161) and the role of capability in facilitating social change. It is therefore a concern that a capability approach to schooling would err on the conservative side despite education systems being in need of a radical overhaul in the face of potential world economic and ecological meltdown (Clark, 2005, p. 11; see also Alkire, 2002, pp.…”

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Sen and the art of educational maintenance: evidencing a capability, as opposed to an effectiveness, approach to schooling

Kelly

2012

Cambridge Journal of Education

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“…Social progress is now understood to be positive movement in some combination of income, education, health, nutrition, housing, the environment, personal security, personal liberty and the quality of public institutions -including their distribution across population groups and regions. There has been a unifying trend in development studies toward notions of human freedom underlying diverse goals and problems (Qizilbash 1996;Clark 2002;Alkire 2002;Hulme 2010). Yet development practice and policy also diversified into distinct epistemic communities.…”

Section: Evolutionmentioning

confidence: 99%