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15 hours ago · Amartya Sen was born in 1933 and brought up in Dhaka. As a child, he met many Bengali intellectuals and was aware of the Bengal famine of 1943–1944 and the partition of India. Those events have had a considerable impact on his life and work, leading him to try to understand how a lack of freedom restricts opportunities and thus the ability to choose how to live.
5 days ago · 2.1. Theoretical framework. Amartya Sen, an Indian economist and philosopher, coined the capability approach in 1984 for the first time (Sen, Citation 1984).According to this concept, poverty is defined as a lack of the ability to live a good life, and development is defined as an extension of capability.
3 days ago · Amartya Sen’s capability approach to development , which highlights individual freedoms and possibilities, provides a useful foundation that for understanding this complexity. South Africa’s unique historical trajectory provides a compelling case study for analysing the complex relationship.
1 day ago · The Indian economist and philosopher Amartya Sen’s concept of “unfreedoms” — the idea that poverty involves not just a lack of income but a deprivation of capabilities — resonates here. Sen (who is also a Nobel Laureate) suggests that poverty limits an individual’s ability to make meaningful choices, as illustrated with the above ...
3 days ago · Indeed, one could interpret Sen’s “capabilities” approach to economic freedom as a richer version of Stiglitz’s “opportunity sets.” For example, Sen’s capabilities include not just the set of opportunities available to each person but also the form of life (“functionings”) they are actually able to obtain with them.
4 days ago · To articulate the notion of motility with the individual responsibility of the unemployed, we mobilize the capability approach proposed by Amartya Sen (2009). Our results show that a generalized cost criterion reflecting the effort (cost, painfulness, externality) associated with the commute is more relevant to the ORE than its duration or distance.
