This paper is motivated by sustained interest in the capabilities approach to welfare economics combined with the … paucity of economic statistics that measure capabilities at the individual level. Specifically, it takes a much discussed … account of the normatively desirable capabilities constitutive of a good life, argued to be comprehensive at a high level of …

Capabilities are closely related to human rights. Capabilities are important human entitlements, inherent in the idea … relationship, expanding on earlier publications, notably Capabilities and Human Rights (1997), Women and Human Development (2000 …), Capabilities as Fundamental Entitlements (2003), and Frontiers of Justice (2005). Capabilities are complementary to and augment …

This paper analyses the role of finance and financial regulation in shaping capabilities, in the context of the 2008 … neglected in relation to capabilities: the role of finance and financial regulation; and the role of human rights obligations in … safeguarding and expanding capabilities. …

This paper proposes an alternative understanding of Sen's Capabilities Approach that views capabilities as constantly …

The capabilities approach has consistently promoted literacy as an important social entitlement, a key determinant of … provided by the Capabilities Approach, and the distinctive rationale that it provides for supporting adult literacy programmes … wider capabilities. The discussion is then extended in relation to ethnographic examples drawn from fieldwork in Bangladesh. …

The two concepts — human rights and capabilities — go well with each other, so long as we do not try to subsume either … capabilities. However, human rights to important process freedoms cannot be adequately analysed within the capability framework …. Furthermore, both human rights and capabilities have to depend on the process of public reasoning. The methodology of public …