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Journal articles on the topic "Sen's capability approach"

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Walker, Melanie. "Amartya Sen's capability approach and education." Educational Action Research 13, no. 1 (March 2005): 103–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09650790500200279.

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QIZILBASH, MOZAFFAR. "Sugden's Critique of the Capability Approach." Utilitas 23, no. 1 (February 15, 2011): 25–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0953820810000439.

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In comparing Sen's work with Mill's, Sugden criticizes Sen's capability approach because it may be applied in such a way that society or theorists judge what is best for people and potentially restrict liberty on that basis. Sugden cites Nussbaum's work as evidence in making his case. Sugden's critique of Sen's approach succeeds on a narrow reading of it. On that reading Sen is also critical of it because it does not leave enough room for liberty. On a broad reading, the critique has less force. Nussbaum's approach follows Mill in allowing people freedom to act on whatever desires they have if this does not harm others. This neutralizes the central element of Sugden's critique as it applies to her approach to some degree. Both Sen and Nussbaum nonetheless recognize the danger of illiberal restrictions in application which motivates Sugden's critique.
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Yun-Kyoung chung. "Amartya Sen's the Capability approach and education." Journal of Educational Idea 29, no. 3 (August 2015): 129–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.17283/jkedi.2015.29.3.129.

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GASPER, DES. "Sen's capability approach and Nussbaum's capabilities ethic." Journal of International Development 9, no. 2 (March 1997): 281–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1099-1328(199703)9:2<281::aid-jid438>3.0.co;2-k.

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OLSARETTI, SERENA. "ENDORSEMENT AND FREEDOM IN AMARTYA SEN'S CAPABILITY APPROACH." Economics and Philosophy 21, no. 1 (April 2005): 89–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266267104000409.

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A central question for assessing the merits of Amartya Sen's capability approach as a potential answer to the “distribution of what”? question concerns the exact role and nature of freedom in that approach. Sen holds that a person's capability identifies that person's effective freedom to achieve valuable states of beings and doings, or functionings, and that freedom so understood, rather than achieved functionings themselves, is the primary evaluative space. Sen's emphasis on freedom has been criticised by G. A. Cohen, according to whom the capability approach either uses too expansive a definition of freedom or rests on an implausibly active, indeed “athletic,” view of well-being. This paper defends the capability approach from this criticism. It argues that we can view the capability approach to be underpinned by an account of well-being which takes the endorsement of valuable functionings as constitutive of well-being, and by a particular view of the way in which endorsement relates to force and choice.
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Scholtes, Fabian. "Whose Sustainability? Environmental Domination and Sen's Capability Approach." Oxford Development Studies 38, no. 3 (September 2010): 289–307. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13600818.2010.505683.

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Robeyns, Ingrid. "SEN'S CAPABILITY APPROACH AND GENDER INEQUALITY: SELECTING RELEVANT CAPABILITIES." Feminist Economics 9, no. 2-3 (January 2003): 61–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1354570022000078024.

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Saito, Madoka. "Amartya Sen's Capability Approach to Education: A Critical Exploration." Journal of Philosophy of Education 37, no. 1 (February 2003): 17–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9752.3701002.

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Cameron, Kate. "The capability approach: Enabling musical learning." British Journal of Music Education 29, no. 3 (November 2012): 281–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0265051712000356.

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Amartya Sen's capability approach offers a new perspective for educators throughout the curriculum. This new insight has the potential to promote a music education that is inherently tailored to the individual. In essence it asks the question: What is music education going to offer to this student? This article represents an initial enquiry into the capability approach when applied to music education. With a theoretical understanding of the capability approach its application can provide insight into pupil voice, teacher voice, growing student autonomy and differentiation.
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Unterhalter, Elaine. "The Capabilities Approach and Gendered Education." Theory and Research in Education 1, no. 1 (March 2003): 7–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1477878503001001002.

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This article examines Amartya Sen's writings on the capabilities approach and education. Sen sometimes suggests a loose association between education and schooling. Elsewhere he concludes that one can read off the outputs of schooling as an indication of capabilities and an enhancement of freedom. While the capability approach provides a valuable way beyond human capital theorizing about education, Sen's writing fails to take account of the complex settings in which schooling takes place. Sometimes schooling does not entail an enhancement of capabilities and substantive freedom. South African policy responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic highlight how using the capability approach to evaluation without paying attention to conditions of gender and race inequality yield only half the picture.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Sen's capability approach"

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Tseng, Chuan Chia. "Microfinance and Amartya Sen's capability approach." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2011. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/2921/.

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There are two main motivations for undertaking this thesis on Sen’s capability approach and microfinance. One is to evaluate Sen’s capability approach by considering moral philosophy (utilitarianism and John Rawls’ theory of justice) and developmental ethics contexts. The other is to analyse the impact of microfinance on poverty reduction in accordance with Sen’s approach. This thesis argues that Although Sen’s capability approach has drawbacks, both as a general moral theory and as a theory of justice, it does bring up important aspects of development and poverty reduction. When the empirical evidence is combined with criteria from the capability approach, microfinance is a relative failure as a poverty-reducing approach. The evidence that micro-loans reduce poverty is weak, and there are moral arguments against the group lending approach that is used to assure repayments. Other services sometimes associated with microfinance – savings and insurance — do help the poor, however. However, we should notice that the conclusion I propose here does not exclude the possibility that perhaps microfinance does help promote some other freedoms that are of significance locally.
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Kuklys, Wiebke. "Amartya Sen's capability approach : theoretical insights and empirical applications." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.614715.

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Sawyer, Asha. "The application of Sen's Capability approach to selected women in Khayelitsha." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2007. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_1407_1255008445.

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Measuring poverty adequately is critical for any type of development project, and yet there are still no clear guidelines as to which approach is best to be used for different circumstances. There is a variety of different ways of measuring and understanding poverty, each with their own advantages and disadvantages, depending on the intended goal. This research explored the theory regarding poverty and poverty measurements, and research various perspectives ranging from income to basic needs, socail exclusion, sustainable livelihoods, and finally to the Human Development Approach.

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Martins, Nuno Miguel Ornelas. "Philosophy and methodology of A.K. Sen's capability approach to human development." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.614178.

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Limaverde, Falcão Gabriel. "Capability of Justice : Amartya Sen's Capability Approach and its Application as a Framework for Global Justice." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-149665.

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This thesis assesses the Amartya Sen's Capability Approach as a theory of global justice. Sen proposes a new paradigm for human development, having expansion of human capability as the moral norm for individual and institutional actions. Sen's paradigm-shifting theory is tested first as a theory of social ethics; and then as a theory of global justice, taking into account globalization’s challenges to theories of justice. The theory's known application – UNDP's Human Development Index and other initiatives – is also scrutinized, aiming to determine whether this application is an accurate translation of the capability approach into reality. On a theoretical point of view, the thesis reveals that what started as a simple interpersonal comparison method can be considered as an efficient theory of global justice, provided that minor proposed amendments are taken. On a practical point of view, the thesis points out that the application of Sen's capability approach is a weak normative representation of the theory, which urges to be reengineered. The thesis calls for a radical expansion of HDI, both in the components of the index (it should urgently have a component for political freedom) and in its unit of comparison. Rather than comparing just nations, human development indexes should target most actors in the global scenario: organizations, NGOs, institutions of global governance and so on.
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Deneulin, Séverine. "Examining Sen's capability approach to development as guiding theory for development policy." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2004. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1c357bd8-5e83-48df-a748-f71745304ac1.

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The purpose of this dissertation is to examine to what extent Sen's freedom-centred view of development, with its existing theoretical foundations, offers sufficient theoretical insights for guiding development policies towards the enhancement of human freedoms. The theoretical part of the dissertation focuses on the three foundational building stones of Sen's freedom-centred view of development. First, the capability approach sets the evaluation space of development in the capabilities that people have reason to choose and value, but by doing so, it is argued that Sen's capability approach contains tensions between human freedom and human well-being that can be loosened by thickening this evaluation space with a substantial view of human well-being. Second, the capability approach views individual agency as central in development, but because of the socio-historical dimension of human freedom and agency, it is argued that concepts of collective capabilities and of socio-historical agency are more central in promoting human freedoms. Third, promoting human freedoms cannot be dissociated from democratic policy-making. But because the link between the two is not necessary, it is argued that the capability approach's consequentialist evaluation of human well-being will have to be thickened by a procedural evaluation which assesses the exercise of political freedom through certain normative principles of decision-making. The empirical part of the thesis illustrates these theoretical arguments through the analysis of two case studies, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic. The case studies particularly point to a country's socio-historical agency, or collective capability in promoting human well-being, through socio-historical narratives. These narratives assess a country's collective capability in promoting human freedoms by looking at the country's socio-historical reality, and how its members have appropriated that reality in the course of the country's history, opening up or closing down opportunities for realising policy decisions towards the removal of unfreedoms.
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Ellis, Bonni. "Amartya Sen's capability approach to equality : is it capable of accommodating human diversity?" Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0003/MQ43616.pdf.

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Alkire, Sabina. "Operationalizing Amartya Sen's capability approach to human development : a framework for identifying 'valuable' capabilities." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.300548.

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Davies, Augusto Zampini. "Amartya Sen's Capability Approach and Catholic Social Teaching in dialogue : an alliance for freedom and justice?" Thesis, University of Roehampton, 2014. https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/studentthesis/amartya-sen’s-capability-approach-and-catholic-social-teaching-in-dialogue(25edea38-94e9-4d46-83d0-88f03c66988e).html.

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This thesis explores the connection between Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach (CA) and Catholic Social Teaching (CST). It questions whether their economic and theological views can be methodologically and practically compatible, articularly around issues of development as freedom and wellbeing as justice. The thesis proposes dialogue between CA and CST, framed by some parables of the New Testament, and argues that he fruit of such a dialogue can enhance human development and reduce injustices, especially in poor regions in Latin America.
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Lezama, Paula. "Afro-Colombian welfare : an application of Amarty Sen's Capability Approach using multiple indicators multiple causes modeling - MIMIC." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0003285.

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Books on the topic "Sen's capability approach"

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Sen's capability approach and institutions. New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2010.

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Alkire, Sabina. Valuing freedoms: Sen's capability approach and poverty reduction. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2002.

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Walker, Melanie, and Elaine Unterhalter, eds. Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach and Social Justice in Education. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230604810.

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Kuklys, Wiebke. Amartya Sen's Capability Approach. Springer, 2008.

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Amartya Sen's Capability Approach. Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-28083-9.

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Valuing Freedoms: Sen's Capability Approach and Poverty Reduction. Oxford University Press, USA, 2002.

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Kuklys, Wiebke. Amartya Sen's Capability Approach: Theoretical Insights and Empirical Applications. Springer, 2010.

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Melanie, Walker, and Unterhalter Elaine, eds. Amartya Sen's capability approach and social justice in education. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

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Melanie, Walker, and Unterhalter Elaine, eds. Amartya Sen's capability approach and social justice in education. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

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Walker, Melanie, and Elaine Unterhalter. Amartya Sen's Capability Approach and Social Justice in Education. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

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Book chapters on the topic "Sen's capability approach"

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Clague, Julie. "“Patent Injustice”: Applying Sen's Capability Approach to Biotechnologies." In Transforming Unjust Structures The Capability Approach, 177–96. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4432-1_10.

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Alkire, Sabina. "Structural Injustice and Democratic Practice: The Trajectory in Sen's Writings." In Transforming Unjust Structures The Capability Approach, 47–61. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4432-1_3.

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Deneulin, Séverine. "“Necessary Thickening”: Ricoeur's Ethic of Justice as a Complement to Sen's Capability Approach." In Transforming Unjust Structures The Capability Approach, 27–45. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4432-1_2.

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Patrón, Pepi. "Power and Deliberative Participation in Sen’s Capability Approach." In The Capability Approach, Empowerment and Participation, 55–74. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-35230-9_3.

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Kellock, Anne, and Rebecca Lawthom. "Sen’s Capability Approach: Children and Well-being Explored through the Use of Photography." In Children and the Capability Approach, 137–61. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230308374_6.

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Schlör, Holger, Wiltrud Fischer, and Sandra Venghaus. "The German Capability Index—An Operationalization of Sen’s Capability Approach." In The Water–Energy–Food Nexus, 145–89. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0239-9_6.

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Terzi, Lorella. "The Capability to Be Educated." In Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach and Social Justice in Education, 25–43. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230604810_2.

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Unterhalter, Elaine. "Gender Equality, Education, and the Capability Approach." In Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach and Social Justice in Education, 87–107. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230604810_5.

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Walker, Melanie, and Elaine Unterhalter. "The Capability Approach: Its Potential for Work in Education." In Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach and Social Justice in Education, 1–18. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230604810_1.

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Biggeri, Mario. "Children’s Valued Capabilities." In Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach and Social Justice in Education, 197–214. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230604810_10.

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Conference papers on the topic "Sen's capability approach"

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Olatokun, Wole. "Analysing Socio-Demographic Differences in Access and Use of ICTs in Nigeria Using the Capability Approach." In InSITE 2009: Informing Science + IT Education Conference. Informing Science Institute, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/3345.

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This paper presents disaggregated survey data on ICT ownership, access to public ICT facilities, capabilities and actual use of ICTs in two locations in a Nigerian municipality. The study analysed socio-demographic differences in access and use of ICTs using Sen’s capability approach. Survey research approach was adopted. The locations were a rural and an urban community. The population of the study comprised 500 respondents selected from the two locations. The two locations were intentionally selected with a view to ensuring rural versus urban data comparisons. A structured questionnaire was the data collection instrument adopted. Chi-square analysis was used to determine the significant factors affecting people’s access and use of ICTs. The result was cross tabulated against the socio-demographic characteristics of the people in the two locations. Findings revealed that there was a gender digital divide among the respondents in the two locations as well as rural-urban divide. It was also found that both male and female respondents in the two locations had access to all the ICT facilities surveyed, some in their homes and others in public places such as church, cyber cafe, working places, friend’s place, etc. However, most of the respondents in the rural community were reported to be able to use landline telephones more than cell phones. In the two locations, the respondents were capable of using radio and television very well. Female respondents in both locations were able to use landline telephones more than their male counterparts but the males were capable of using other facilities more than the female respondents. This was chiefly due to the fact that the male respondents in the two locations were more educated than the females. The young set of respondents was also capable of using ICTs more than the older people. Based on the findings, it was recommended that the government need to evolve policies aimed at bridging the digital divide particularly increasing ICT penetration in both rural and urban areas.
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He, Liang, Sean Phillips, Steven Waslander, and William Melek. "Task Based Pose Optimization of Modular Mobile Manipulators." In ASME 2012 11th Biennial Conference on Engineering Systems Design and Analysis. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/esda2012-83010.

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We propose a task based pose optimization method for modular mobile manipulators. The modular mobile manipulators are designed and prototyped by researchers at University of Waterloo. The intended application of the modular mobile manipulator is to assist urban search and rescue in unstructured environments. A single mobile manipulator with limited capability cannot achieve complex tasks in this application. When several modular mobile manipulators are linked to one another, they can perform complex tasks through decentralized collaboration. The focus of this research is to develop and simulate a task based pose optimization algorithm for several mobile robots linked by dexterous arms. A genetic algorithm is a bio-inspired optimization technique that mimics the process of evolution. In nature, many living organisms, such as ants and birds use genetic algorithms to forge for food and achieve complex tasks. The advantages of the genetic algorithm are its simplicity and effectiveness. The proposed genetic algorithm in this research optimizes the manipulability measure of the onboard mechanical manipulator arms. To verify the proposed task based pose optimization algorithm, a formation of three mobile manipulators serially connected through their onboard mechanical manipulators is considered in this research. The control architecture is organized into a three level hierarchy. On the top level, a human operator sends guiding commands to the lead module in the formation through a wireless communication channel. The median level control aims at optimizing the manipulator pose. The base level control is established with the input-output linearization. To add realistic considerations into the simulation environment, fractal terrains are generated with the popular Diamond-Square algorithm. The inclination angle of each mobile manipulator on the terrain is estimated through a four-point terrain-matching algorithm. The simulation is completed in MATLAB. Repetitive simulations are pursued in this research to confirm the simplicity and effectiveness of our approach to control machines that interact with the natural environment. The simulation program established in this research serves as a test environment for the task based pose optimization of modular mobile manipulators. The major contributions of this research are the optimization algorithm and the novel hardware design for the specified tasks.
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Reports on the topic "Sen's capability approach"

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Mushongera, Darlington, Prudence Kwenda, and Miracle Ntuli. An analysis of well-being in Gauteng province using the capability approach. Gauteng City-Region Observatory, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.36634/2020.op.1.

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As countries across the globe pursue economic development, the improvement of individual and societal well-being has increasingly become an overarching goal. In the global South, in particular, high levels of poverty, inequality and deteriorating social fabrics remain significant challenges. Programmes and projects for addressing these challenges have had some, but limited, impact. This occasional paper analyses well-being in Gauteng province from a capability perspective, using a standard ‘capability approach’ consistent with Amartya Sen’s first conceptualisation, which was then operationalised by Martha Nussbaum. Earlier research on poverty and inequality in the Gauteng City-Region was mainly based on objective characteristics of well-being such as income, employment, housing and schooling. Using data from the Gauteng City-Region Observatory’s Quality of Life Survey IV for 2015/16, our capability approach provides a more holistic view of well-being by focusing on both objective and subjective aspects simultaneously. The results confirm the well-known heterogeneity in human conditions among South African demographic groups, namely that capability achievements vary across race, age, gender, income level and location. However, we observe broader (in both subjective and objective dimensions) levels of deprivation that are otherwise masked in the earlier studies. In light of these findings, the paper recommends that policies are directly targeted towards improving those capability indicators where historically disadvantaged and vulnerable groups show marked deprivation. In addition, given the spatial heterogeneities in capability achievements, we recommend localised interventions in capabilities that are lagging in certain areas of the province.
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