Happiness in Human Development: Lessons from the Capability Approach

2017 ◽  
pp. 123-140
Author(s):  
Tadashi Hirai
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Capability Approach ◽  
The Capability Approach

scholarly journals A Poset-Generalizability Method for Human Development Indicators

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Flavio Comim
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Capability Approach ◽  
Generalizability Theory ◽  
Well Being ◽  
New Method ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Development Indicators ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
Development Analysis ◽  
The Capability Approach

AbstractThe paper introduces a poset-generalizability perspective for analysing human development indicators. It suggests a new method for identifying admissibility of different informational spaces and criteria in human development analysis. From its inception, the Capability Approach has argued for informational pluralism in normative evaluations. But in practice, it has turned its back to other (non-capability) informational spaces for being imperfect, biased or incomplete and providing a mere evidential role in normative evaluations. This paper offers the construction of a proper method to overcome this shortcoming. It combines tools from poset analysis and generalizability theory to put forward a systematic categorization of cases with different informational spaces. It provides illustrations by using key informational spaces, namely, resources, rights, subjective well-being and capabilities. The offered method is simpler and more concrete than mere human development guidelines and at the same time it avoids results based on automatic calculations. The paper concludes with implications for human development policies and an agenda for further work.

Human development, capabilities and the ethics of policy

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans-Uwe Otto ◽  
Melanie Walker ◽  
Holger Ziegler
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Capability Approach ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
National Level ◽  
Policy Practice ◽  
Policy Interventions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Different Parts ◽  
The Capability Approach

This book examines policy interventions driven or influenced by human development or human security concerns and how a capability approach can be implemented to achieve more just societies and foster equal opportunities for individuals and groups across the social and class spectrum. It also analyses the discrepancies and obstacles that actual policies present to what a capability approach could mean in social policy practice. The primary goal of the capability approach is to advance democracy at the community, local and national level in ways that promote genuine possibilities for agency to enable everyone to actively participate in shaping public policy. The book considers how the capability approach has been conceptualised and operationalised into practice in different parts of the world, including India, Buenos Aires, South Africa, England and New York City.

scholarly journals Reconceptualising the Child’s Right to Development: Children and the Capability Approach

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 523-542 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noam Peleg
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Capability Approach ◽  
Developmental Psychology ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Alternative Framework ◽  
Right To Development ◽  
Children’S Agency ◽  
The Capability Approach ◽  
The Way

The article proposes adopting the Capability Approach as a theoretical framework to analyse the child’s right to development. Currently, the child’s right to development is realised as the child’s right to become an adult. This interpretation is problematic on several grounds, primarily its usage of developmental psychology as an underlying narrative to conceptualise childhood and interpret children’s rights, and its lack of respect for children’s agency. Using the Capability Approach’s conception of ‘human development’ as an alternative framework can change the way in which childhood and children’s development are conceptualised and, consequently, change the interpretation of the child’s right to development. It can accommodate simultaneously care for the child’s future and the child’s life at the present; promote respect for a child’s agency and active participation in her own growth; and lay the foundations for developing concrete measures of implementation.

“Surplus in Man” and the capability-based sustained/total human development

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 260-275
Author(s):  
Dilip Dutta
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Capability Approach ◽  
Recent Trend ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Individual Human ◽  
The Capability Approach

Purpose – This paper aims to define a capability-based sustained/total human development, after reviewing both the concept of “Surplus in Man” as the source for achieving the Vedântic ideal of transcendence, and the capability approach to human development. Design/methodology/approach – The capability-based sustained/total human development has been defined by integrating the Vedântic concept of “Surplus in Man” and the deontological theories of morality into the basic approach to capability-based human development. Findings – An answer to the question: “How to apply a holistic approach to our daily life?” is outlined. Practical implications – An example is provided on the role of yoga and meditation as the key initial bridging forces between the Western and Eastern concept of mental health. Also, the recent trend in a morally demanding lifestyle of a section of people in the Western societies for moving towards a galloping spiritual pluralism has been exemplified. Originality/value – Role of responsibility of an individual human being along with his or her right has explicitly been emphasized in the approach to capability-based sustained/total human development.

scholarly journals Overcoming Poverty in Multidimensional Poverty Interventions through Self-assessment and Mentoring

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Pane ◽  
Katharina Hammler
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Capability Approach ◽  
Multidimensional Poverty ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Family Plan ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Technological Tool ◽  
Poverty Elimination ◽  
The Capability Approach

A microfinance organization in Paraguay has developed the “Poverty Stoplight” (PS), an innovative technological tool that allows families to self-assess their level of multidimensional poverty and start an integrated mentoring process whose goal is to empower families to eliminate multidimensional poverty based on what the participants value the most. During the program, a mentor works with participants to design a customized family plan to identify their most significant challenges in order to overcome their deprivations. The PS places human development and poverty elimination as the main objectives for the intervention. This paper has three elements. First, it presents the methodology for poverty intervention and the detailed tool (i.e. a multidimensional metric) used to encourage reflecting and promoting agency. Second, it uses the Capability Approach to explore the potential of the PS intervention to increase agency and decrease multidimensional deprivations. Third, it presents results from an ongoing research project that evaluates the program’s effectiveness in helping participants overcome poverty. This empirical part is based on data collected between August 2015 and June 2017 from over 9,000 microfinance clients and analyzed using the technique of OLS regressions. The results indicate that participation in the program is indeed associated with a higher probability of overcoming multidimensional poverty.

scholarly journals L'APPROCCIO DELLE CAPACITÀ DI SEN: UN DIBATTITO RECENTE

Il Politico ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 254 (1) ◽  
pp. 156-166
Author(s):  
Renata Targetti Lenti
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Capability Approach ◽  
Sono Stati ◽  
The Capability Approach

I lavori inclusi nel Cambridge Handbook of the Capability Approach sono stati raccolti e curati da tre studiosi molto noti. Enrica Chiappero Martinetti è professore ordinario di politica economica all'Università di Pavia: insegna economia, sviluppo sostenibile ed economia dello sviluppo e della cooperazione a livello universitario e post-universitario. Ha ricoperto la carica di vicepresidente dell'Associazione per lo Sviluppo Umano e le Capacità e attualmente serve tale Associazione come redattrice del "Journal of Human Development and Capabilities".

Informal workers and human development in South Africa

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ina Conradie
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Capability Approach ◽  
Policy Formulation ◽  
Policy Proposal ◽  
Lower Middle Class ◽  
Informal Workers ◽  
Development Approach ◽  
The Capability Approach

This chapter examines how the human development approach and the capability approach can be used to inform policy formulation by considering the case of social insurance for informal workers in South Africa. It begins with a discussion of the nature of the human development approach and the capability approach and the ways they can be used in the formulation of social policy. It then describes a short background study of poverty and problems in contemporary South Africa before outlining a policy proposal for social protection of informal workers in South Africa, based on human development and capability expansion. This proposal involves a savings plan based on the Mbao scheme in Kenya that might alleviate poverty. The chapter argues that this savings plan may help address the cycle of over-indebtedness among the poor and the emerging lower middle class in South Africa.

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