List of Figures, Tables and Boxes |
List of Contributors |
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations |
Introduction |
Concepts / Part I: |
A Normative Framework for Development / Sabina Alkire ; Séverine Deneulin1: |
Normative, positive and predictive |
Case studies |
Normative frameworks matter |
People first |
The Human Development and Capability Approach / 2: |
Human development |
Going deeper: The capability approach |
Ideas Related to Human Development / 3: |
Human development and market liberalism: Freedom compared |
How the idea of freedom is spread |
The basic needs approach |
Human rights |
Human security |
Other related ideas |
Topics / Part II: |
Economic Growth / Randy Spence4: |
Growth in the history of economic thought |
Contemporary approaches to economic growth |
Economic growth as a means to human flourishing |
Equality and Justice / Ingrid Robeyns5: |
A brief description of the literature on theories of justice |
Rawls' theory of justice in a nutshell |
Rawlsian justice versus the capability approach |
What do we need for a capability theory of justice? |
Gender justice and justice for marginalized groups |
From theories of justice to just practices and policies |
Poverty and Inequality Measurement / Maria Emma Santos6: |
The importance and limitations of measurement |
Income-based measures of inequality |
Income poverty measurement: Two steps |
Measuring development and well-being: The Human Development Index (HDI) |
Multidimensional poverty measurement |
Institutions, Markets and Economic Development / Susan Johnson7: |
Institutions in economic development |
Markets |
Institutions and markets in the human development approach |
Democracy and Political Participation / Severine Deneulin8: |
A mechanism for exercising agency in public sphere |
The value of democracy |
From democratic theory to practice |
Public reasoning |
Political participation at the global level |
Education / Elaine Unterhalter9: |
Human capital |
Human capital and the capability approaches compared |
Applying the capability approach to education |
Health / Proochista Ariana ; Arif Naveed10: |
What is health? |
Conventional approaches to health |
Health within the human development and capability approach |
Health at the heart of inter-locking deprivations |
Culture and Religion / Sarah White11: |
Culture |
Development perspectives |
Anthropological perspectives |
Human development perspectives |
Religion |
The Protestant ethic approach |
Religion as moral base |
Religion as human right |
Religion as dimension of well-being |
Faith-based-organizations |
The possibility of reasoning |
Policy / Part III: |
Human Development Policy Analysis / 12: |
Main areas of public policy |
Policy in the private, non-profit and international sectors |
Politics and power |
Tools for policy analysis |
A human development perspective |
Policy Case Studies / Lila Shahani13: |
A personal narrative of a woman's life in Ghana |
Gender policy in Turkey |
Fiscal policy in Syria |
Security policy in Haiti |
Technical assistance policy in Afghanistan |
Post-conflict policy in Liberia |
Teaching the human development and capability approach: Some pedagogical implications / Melanie WalkerAppendix 1: |
Didactic Pictures / Appendix 2: |
Index |
List of Figures, Tables and Boxes |
List of Contributors |
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations |