Kerstenetzky, Celia Lessa; Santos, Larissa - In: Journal of Human Development and Capabilities 10 (2009) 2, pp. 189-211
This article applies the concept of poverty as insufficiency of basic capabilities in measuring living conditions of residents of a favela (shantytown) in Rio de Janeiro, the Vidigal favela. For this purpose, we develop a methodology to operationalize the capability approach. Our choice of this...