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- According to Sen, development is enhanced by democracy and the protection of human rights. Such rights, especially freedom of the press, speech, assembly, and so forth increase the likelihood of honest, clean, good government. He claims that “no famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy”.
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Human development, as an approach, is concerned with what I take to be the basic development idea: namely, advancing the richness of human life, rather than the richness of the economy in which human beings live, which is only a part of it.
THE CONCEPT OF DEVELOPMENT AMARTYA SEN* Harvard University Contents 1. The background 10 2. Production, growth, and development 12 3. Characteristics, functionings, and living 15 4. Freedom and capability 16 5. Weights and rankings 18 6. Values, instruments, and objects 20 7. Conclusion 23 References 24
Sen frames development as the realization of freedom and the abolishment of 'unfreedoms' such as poverty, famine, and lack of political rights. Arguments are...
- Siri Terjesen
The policies, practices, analyses, and measures that guide development institutions can be scrutinized to uncover which truly aim at human freedoms, and how true their aim might be. Much of Sen's development writings engage or draw on investigations of this form.
Apr 14, 2011 · The capability approach is a theoretical framework that entails two normative claims: first, the claim that the freedom to achieve well-being is of primary moral importance and, second, that well-being should be understood in terms of people’s capabilities and functionings.
- Ingrid Robeyns, Morten Fibieger Byskov
- 2010
Amartya Sen was the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics. Development as Freedom was published one year later and argues that development entails a set of linked freedoms: political freedoms and transparency in relations between people; freedom of opportunity, including freedom to access credit; and
According to 1998 Nobel prize winner, Amartya Sen, freedom is both the primary objective of development, and the principal means of development. The human being is an engine of change. Sen is both the first Indian and the first Asian to win the Nobel prize for economics.
