scholarly journals Ubuntu and Capabilities Approach: Basic Doctrines for Calibrating Humanitarian Action

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 12-19
Author(s):  
Mashele Rapatsa
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Civil Liberties ◽  
Intervention Strategy ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Capabilities Approach ◽  
Philosophy Of Life ◽  
Humanitarian Action ◽  
Post Disaster

AbstractThis article explores prospects of using Ubuntu and Capabilities Approach to expand the scope of humanitarian action, to design one which serves humanity better even in the absence of disaster to essentially fulfil human development needs. It is considerate of the fact that humanitarian works contributes immensely in determining the extent to which humanity thrives. The traditional view on humanitarianism presupposes action-driven initiatives geared towards devising interventions to restore or reinforce human social order, improve livelihoods and quality of life. In sociological terms, human development is dependent on realizing and safeguarding, amongst others, human well-being, civil liberties and social security. The article utilizes core values enshrined in Ubuntu, Africa’s historic philosophy of life, and Amartya Sen’s Capabilities Approach as tools of analysis, with the view to expressing how to operationalize what should be considered stable humanitarian conditions and human well-being. Owing to persistent socio-economic challenges, especially the poverty problem, it is asserted that humanitarian action ought to depart from being a post-disaster intervention strategy, to being a pro-active and preventative pre-disaster orientated action, intended to nurture well-being and resultantly enable human development.

scholarly journals SATISFACTION OF RESIDENTS ON THE REDEVELOPMENT OF NATURAL DISASTER AREA. CASE STUDY: KUALA KRAI, KELANTAN, MALAYSIA

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver Ling Hoon Leh ◽  
Muhammad Shamsul Azdhar Zulkapli ◽  
Kwong Qi Jie ◽  
Nurul Ashikin Mabahwi
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disaster ◽  
East Coast ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Peninsular Malaysia ◽  
The Public ◽  
Disaster Area ◽  
Housing Area ◽  
Post Disaster

Referring to the Malaysian National Security Council, disaster is defined as a catastrophic situation that claimed many lives and caused extensive damage to property and potentially endangers the public peace and security. In Malaysia, there were few natural disaster events that can be said to be among the worst ever in terms of the number of deaths and damages. However, these occurrences were not as severe as overseas. At the end of December 2014, there was a catastrophic flood called as the 'Bah Kuning' was hitting the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia. It resulted in almost 85% of the total Kuala Krai area inundated by flood water. One of the elements in post-disaster recovery is rebuilding shelter for victims. Regardless, it is important to research on residents’ satisfaction as it will affect the well-being directly or indirectly. Thus, a study was carried out to evaluate the satisfaction of residents (victims) on the “New Permanent Houses” (Rumah Kekal Baharu, RKB) that they received from the redevelopment project. A questionnaire survey was carried out to collect and understand respondents’ satisfaction on the redevelopment of their housing area, in specific, the quality of their newly reconstructed houses and the supporting facilities or infrastructure in their area. From the analysis, it was found that majority of the respondents were satisfied with their newly redeveloped houses and the infrastructure. The satisfaction level was associated with the locational and land ownership factors.

The Concept

2019 ◽  
pp. 24-73
Author(s):  
K. Seeta Prabhu ◽  
Sandhya S. Iyer
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Human Development Index ◽  
Unique Feature ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Capabilities Approach ◽  
Human Flourishing ◽  
Development Index ◽  
Factors Influencing

This chapter explains in detail the notions of ‘functionings’ and ‘capabilities’. It discusses the multi-layered phenomena of capabilities in the form of as threshold, internal, external, and complex capabilities. It analyses how they provide valuable understanding about the conversion factors that are involved in the translation of resources to capabilities and capabilities into functionings. It critically evaluates the capabilities approach and emphasises the importance of the role of endowments and entitlements as factors influencing and contributing to human flourishing and well-being. The unique feature of the chapter is the presentation of an integrated analytical framework that traces the pathways to human development through equity, sustainability, empowerment, and productivity processes. In addition, the chapter discusses the Human Development Index (HDI) and the challenges relating to its computation.

scholarly journals Well-Being as Human Development, Equality, Happiness and the Role of Freedom, Activism, Decentralization, Volunteerism and Voter Participation: A Global Country-Level Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas D. Perkins ◽  
Mehmet Reha Ozgurer ◽  
Andrew Lupton ◽  
Shadi Omidvar-Tehrani
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Voter Turnout ◽  
Fiscal Decentralization ◽  
Civil Liberties ◽  
National Income ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Voter Participation ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Average Life Expectancy ◽  
Country Level

We propose and test a new model for predicting multiple quantitative measures of well-being globally at the country level based on the United Nations Human Development Index (HDI), income inequality (Net Gini), and National Happiness Index (NHI; U.N. Sustainable Development Solutions Network world survey of life satisfaction). HDI consists of per-capita Gross National Income (economic well-being), average life expectancy (proxy for health well-being), and educational attainment (capabilities well-being). Using data on 105 countries representing 95% of the world’s population, a history of grassroots activism (Global Non-violent Action Database), civil liberties and political rights (Freedom Score), political and fiscal decentralization, and voter participation (Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance) correlate with HDI and NHI. Citizen volunteering (Gallup Civic Engagement Index) predicts only NHI. In multivariate analyses, Freedom Score is the most robust predictor of all well-being measures, including income equality. Fiscal decentralization and voter turnout also predict HDI and NHI, controlling for other influences. Based on prior analyses in the Global Development of Applied Community Studies project, implications and recommendations are discussed for developing community human research and professional resources across 12 disciplines in countries where they are needed based on social justice, citizenship, well-being, inequality, human rights, and other development challenges. We recommend individual and community-level and qualitative analyses of the above predictors’ relationships with these same conceptualizations of well-being, as well as consideration of other social, cultural and political variables and their effect on well-being.

scholarly journals calidad de vida desde el enfoque de las capacidades en la crisis de la COVID-19 en Perú

Sílex ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 13-30
Author(s):  
Franklin Cornejo Urbina
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Social Vulnerability ◽  
Capabilities Approach ◽  
Collective Actions ◽  
Common Values ◽  
Calidad De Vida

El presente trabajo propone algunas conexiones teóricas sobre el enfoque de las capacidades para repensar el concepto de calidad de vida en la pandemia de la COVID-19. En particular, este análisis se proyecta hacia los contextos peruanos de desigualdad social y pobreza, donde la agencia y las acciones colectivas –como potencialidades significativas de las personas– pueden promover capacidades frente a la crisis ocasionada por la pandemia. Se concluye que las personas organizadas, en contextos de vulnerabilidad social se identifican valores comunes, como la democracia, la justicia o la verdad: se defienden valores constitutivos para tener calidad de vida y desarrollo humano. The present work proposes some theoretical connections on the capabilities approach to rethink the concept of quality of life in the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular this analysis is projected towards the Peruvian contexts of social inequality and poverty, where the agency and the collective actions –as significant potentialities of people– can promote capacities towards to the crisis caused by the pandemic. It is concluded that organized people, in contexts of social vulnerability, identify common values such as democracy, justice or truth: they defend constitutive values to have quality of live and human development.

scholarly journals calidad de vida desde el enfoque de las capacidades en la crisis de la COVID-19 en Perú

Sílex ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 13-30
Author(s):  
Franklin Cornejo Urbina
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Social Vulnerability ◽  
Capabilities Approach ◽  
Collective Actions ◽  
Common Values ◽  
Calidad De Vida

El presente trabajo propone algunas conexiones teóricas sobre el enfoque de las capacidades para repensar el concepto de calidad de vida en la pandemia de la COVID-19. En particular, este análisis se proyecta hacia los contextos peruanos de desigualdad social y pobreza, donde la agencia y las acciones colectivas –como potencialidades significativas de las personas– pueden promover capacidades frente a la crisis ocasionada por la pandemia. Se concluye que las personas organizadas, en contextos de vulnerabilidad social se identifican valores comunes, como la democracia, la justicia o la verdad: se defienden valores constitutivos para tener calidad de vida y desarrollo humano. The present work proposes some theoretical connections on the capabilities approach to rethink the concept of quality of life in the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular this analysis is projected towards the Peruvian contexts of social inequality and poverty, where the agency and the collective actions –as significant potentialities of people– can promote capacities towards to the crisis caused by the pandemic. It is concluded that organized people, in contexts of social vulnerability, identify common values such as democracy, justice or truth: they defend constitutive values to have quality of live and human development.

Financial Inclusion and Quality of Life: Empirical Evidences from Indian States with Special Reference to West Bengal

2021 ◽  
pp. 0258042X2110261
Author(s):  
Avisek Sen ◽  
Arindam Laha
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Financial Literacy ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Financial Inclusion ◽  
Indian States ◽  
The Relationship

The conceptual connection between financial inclusion and quality of life (QOL) can be realized by a two-way relationships. On the one hand, financial inclusion induces QOL, while an improvement in QOL facilitates in generating demand for financial services, on the other hand. Even though several studies seek to find out the role of finance in the well-being of the population (especially human development), this article concentrates on QOL to eliminate the financial attributes of development (as captured by income dimension in Human Development Index). In this sense, this study addresses the research gap in the existing literature by establishing the relationship between financial inclusion and QOL. Specifically, the article attempts to explain the two-way tie-up between the financial inclusion and the QOL in India in the context of Indian states, in general, and West Bengal, in particular. Canonical correlation (CC; a multivariate data analysis technique) is used to estimate the relation between the financial inclusion and QOL. Empirical results suggest that western and the southern Indian states excel in the attainment of education, health and other amenities-based indicators of QOL. The conditions of the eastern part of the country in case of financial inclusion and the QOL are not at all satisfactory. In case of West Bengal, Kolkata being the state capital is performing well in both the factors. CC results suggest a significant association between the financial inclusion and QOL across Indian states. The deposit account of financial inclusion indicator and the infant survival rate of QOL indicator are playing a pivotal role in the relationship (both the Indian states and districts of West Bengal as well). This article establishes the effectiveness of the demand following approach of financial inclusion than that of supply leading approach. As the demand-side aspect of financial inclusion is becoming more important to the policymakers, the next policy priority of financial inclusion measures could be the generation of awareness on the financial services through financial literacy. JEL Codes: G2, O15, C39

scholarly journals Influence of Housing Resettlement on the Subjective Well-Being of Disaster-Forced Migrants: An Empirical Study in Yancheng City

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (15) ◽  
pp. 8171
Author(s):  
Yi Li ◽  
Xuanfeng Feng
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Social Environments ◽  
Logistic Regression Models ◽  
Community Environment ◽  
Disaster Victims ◽  
Living Space ◽  
Community Facilities ◽  
Post Disaster

As natural disasters have occurred frequently in recent years, disaster-induced migration has become inevitable. People normally attach great importance to the speed and results of post-disaster reconstruction while ignoring the subjective well-being (SWB) of disaster victims, which represents their quality of life and emotional conditions. Based on a questionnaire survey of 256 respondents from Yancheng’s 17 centralised resettlement communities established after a hurricane in 2016, we used ordinal logistic regression models to discuss the SWB of disaster-induced migrants and its main influencing factors. We found that the SWB of disaster-induced migrants is influenced by resettlement housing conditions and community built and social environments. In light of the housing resettlement conditions, the findings show that disaster migrants are likely to feel happier if they are satisfied with the housing resettlement allocation mode, housing resettlement quality and the living space, and the more housing expenditure related to the resettlement is, the less happy they tend to be. In regard to the community environment, it is found that disaster migrants’ evaluation of community facilities and participation does not have a significant impact on their happiness, but the more highly rated community hygiene and the cadre–mass relationship are, the happier they tend to be.

scholarly journals Assessment of Human Capital in Russian Macroregions

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 888-901
Author(s):  
Sergey G. Shulgin ◽  
Yulia V. Zinkina
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Life Expectancy ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Federal District ◽  
Well Being ◽  
North Caucasus ◽  
Far Eastern

A quantitative assessment of human capital is necessary for both understanding society and implementing effective socio-economic policies. In the present paper, a new approach — the Human Life Indicator (HLI) — was implemented to measure inequality in life expectancy. The Human Development Index (HDI), proposed by the United Nations, does not take into account significant internal inequalities of countries with the same or similar life expectancy. On the contrary, HLI reflects the well-being in terms of years of life, additionally considering the inequality in life expectancy. Presented calculations were based on federal mortality statistics. This study estimated human development of Russian federal districts by comparing HDI and HLI. The analysis revealed that high HDI values, achieved, for example, due to a high gross regional product (GRP) per capita, do not translate into an improvement in the quality of life for the majority of the population. Such situation is observed in the Far Eastern Federal District. The regions that are relatively prosperous in terms of HLI are concentrated in the European part of Russia and the North Caucasus Federal District. Simultaneously, most Siberian and the Far Eastern regions, characterised by high inequality in life expectancy, require the attention of federal and regional authorities. The presented approach to assessing the success of regional development can be used to estimate how the ongoing socio-economic policy and health care reforms influence the quality of life in the regions. This method can also be applied to compare inter-regional indicators of human capital and monitor changes in well-being of the population.

Reformulating emancipation in the Anthropocene: From didactic apocalypse to planetary subjectivities

2021 ◽  
pp. 136843102110270
Author(s):  
Manuel Arias-Maldonado
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Human Impact ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Natural Systems ◽  
Global Sustainability ◽  
Planetary Habitability ◽  
The Ideal

The ideal of emancipation has been traditionally grounded on the premise that human activity is not restrained by external boundaries. Thus the realisation of values such as autonomy or recognition has been facilitated by economic growth and material expansion. Yet there is mounting evidence that the human impact on natural systems at the planetary level, a novelty captured by the concept of the Anthropocene, endangers the Earth’s habitability. If human development is to be limited for the sake of global sustainability, can emancipation be kept as a mobilising ideal? As opposed to alternative views such as that of degrowth, this article argues that it can. The key lies in the ability of the Anthropocene to produce planetary subjectivities. By recognising the bounded quality of human embeddedness, the possibility of a different emancipation is opened up. The latter does not give up material well-being, yet it makes sure that the latter does not endanger planetary habitability.

scholarly journals EVOLUTION OF WELLBEING THEORIES IN THE POSTULATES OF ECONOMIC SCHOOLS AND CONCEPTS

2020 ◽  
Vol 1(13) ◽  
pp. 17-22
Author(s):  
Iryna M. Hrynchyshyn ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Local Economic Development ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Endogenous Development

The article presents the evolution of wellbeing theories in the postulates of economic schools and concepts. It has been established that the first period of development of economic wellbeing theories was marked by polarized tendencies of market or state domination, which led to the consideration of social wellbeing by economists-theorists in the macroeconomic aspect. It has also been found out that forming the foundation of future scientific research their representatives laid the foundations for methodological understanding and development of many economic theories. The second direction of development of wellbeing theories is based on the imperatives of economic growth (location theories, neoclassical theories, theories of cumulative growth, institutional theories and new theories of regional development). It has been found that the rethinking of approaches to local and regional development at the present stage is associated with the actualization of the theory of endogenous development and the concept of local economic development (place-based theory). It has been found out that along with theories of well-being based on the economic concept, theories that determine the social status of people from the standpoint of their high standard of living and human development are widespread in international research. The third direction of wellbeing theories, related to the search for measures of human development that go beyond GDP, is now formed from an alternative flow of scientific thought in the established scientific direction. The end of the last century was marked by a significant interest in social indicators, outlined in various doctrinal forms: social progress, human development, quality of life, wellbeing in a new sense, as well as increasing attention to the individual and their original organizational groups (family, households, communities), and the definition of their weight in the relationship «state-market». Common expression of these concepts is a person whose view transformed from a purely materialist understanding of their wellbeing to a broader point of view – a person who professes values and is in collective interaction. The present study of the evolution of wellbeing theory indicates the need for the formation and implementation of public policy in the direction of intensifying local development and provision of high quality public services based on the principle of subsidiarity. Keywords: wellbeing, state, market, territorial community, economic growth, local economic development, human development, quality of life, subjective well-being

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