The capability approach to the wellbeing of poor adolescents: a Taiwanese case study

Lin, Yei-Whei; Chen, Chih-Nan

doi:10.1080/02185385.2017.1342099

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“…It pertains to the Italian context but could be replicated in other contexts by using the EU-SILC survey. In the Taiwanese context, Lin and Chen (Lin & Chen, 2017;Chen and Lin, 2020) focus on the reality of children and adolescents living in poverty in Taiwan and identify four possible states of well-being: guaranteed well-being, functional deprivation, capability deprivation and double deprivation. Their conclusions highlight that the situation of deprivation of capabilities is more complex to overcome than other forms of deprivation (Chen & Lin, 2020).…”

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The Capability Approach and Child Well-Being: A Systematic Literature Review

Serrano

Moral-Espín

2022

Child Ind Res

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Child well-being is a dynamic concept currently under revision due to its complexity and the need to incorporate traditionally overlooked perspectives. An essential aspect of this revision is considering children as active agents in defining the concept itself and incorporating new elements that enrich the more traditional economics-based and adult-centred conceptualisation. In these regards, the capability approach (CA) provides valuable theoretical support for an expanded understanding of child well-being. Therefore, this article aims to offer a systematised review of the literature from the last two decades that uses this approach in examining children and childhood. To do so, the authors examined the main international databases and conducted relevant additional searches, identifying 63 journals that have published capabilitarian articles over the last two decades. Our findings show that most publications concentrate on recent years, with an expansion of the methodologies used and the contexts addressed. Although education seems to be one of the primary interests of this literature, there has also been an increasing range of children’s realities and topics observed that we summarised in 10 categories. Between then, we dig deeper into the subsegment that specifically addresses the category of child well-being. Our review reveals that quantitative approaches and European contexts are predominant within these papers, and we analyse how they concern different spaces, well-being dimensions and intersectionalities.

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The Capability Approach and Child Well-Being: A Systematic Literature Review

Serrano

Moral-Espín

2022

Child Ind Res

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“…This includes the ability to lead a healthy life and the ability to achieve education, among others. The concept of capabilities embraces the duality of the "Freedom of opportunity" provided by the environment and the "Freedom of choice" imposed by the adolescent subject [23]. In this sense, capability is both an opportunity and an individual's ability.…”

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The Capability Approach to Adolescent Poverty in China: Application of a Latent Class Model

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After 2020, poverty alleviation in China will shift from eliminating absolute poverty to alleviating unbalanced and insufficient relative poverty. Based on Amartya Sen’s capability approach, this article aimed to realize the freedom of “capability” of children and ensure the well-being and development of Chinese adolescents, who are often ignored in child poverty research. The study sought to estimate the 10–15-year-olds in a multidimensional capabilities poverty group. Our analysis was based on the adolescent capability methodology framework, using data from the 2018 China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) to investigate the types and influencing factors of adolescent capability poverty in China. The result of latent class analysis showed that there are four types of capability poverty among the Chinese adolescents, namely, Extreme Capability Poverty Class, Goal Capability Poverty Class, Opportunity Capability Poverty Class, and Capability Non-Poverty Class. Multinomial logistic regression showed that the personal factors of gender, ethnic minority, hukou, and pocket money; the family factors of parents’ marital status, parents’ education level, and region of residence; and the family economic factor of per capita family income had a significant impact on the types of China’s adolescent capability poverty. The article provides empirical and quantitative evidence for the adolescent (ages 10–15) class of capability poverty. The findings provide a reference for policy makers to target poverty-alleviation efforts according to different types of poverty and to interrupt the intergenerational transmission of poverty.

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The capability approach to the wellbeing of poor adolescents: a Taiwanese case study

Cited by 2 publications

References 17 publications

The Capability Approach and Child Well-Being: A Systematic Literature Review

The Capability Approach and Child Well-Being: A Systematic Literature Review

The Capability Approach to Adolescent Poverty in China: Application of a Latent Class Model

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