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of innovation for a better management of irrigation water. It takes into account all potential forms of technological … innovation for sustainable development. This analysis is supporting a questionnaire on irrigation practices targeting fifty …
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account some potential forms of technological innovation for sustainable development. For this purpose, this paper tries to …
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While research on happiness and capabilities has been growing rapidly, they seldom treated together for useful policy … measure Sen’s capabilities (freedom, functionings and efficiency) of “being achieved” and compare them with our happiness … capabilities are the most important and stable determinants of happiness. We rank policy units on the basis of capabilities and …
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Conceptual overview, critical commentary and future directions
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modeling approach. The knowledge dimension of capabilities is modeled and estimated by integrating exploratory and confirmatory … modeling for constructing latent variable scores, and their subsequent use in estimation. These findings suggest a capabilities …-oriented public and education policies for the enhancement of knowledge dimension of capabilities in particular and human welfare in …
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The main purpose of this paper is to examine the causes and consequences -- in particular, the policy implications -- of the ongoing urbanization in Bangladesh. Like many other Asian developing countries, a rapidly increasing share of the population of Bangladesh migrates to urban centers in...
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Rapid urbanization is a fact of live even in the least developed countries (LDCs) where the lion’s share of the population presently lives in rural areas and will continue to do so for decades to come. At the turn of the millennium 75% of the LDCs’ population still lived in rural areas and...
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globalization from the capabilities perspective. A freedom-centered perspective such as the capabilities approach emphasizes …
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Abstract: In this paper we model sustainable human development as intended in Sen’s capability approach in a system dynamic framework. Our purpose is to verify the variations over time of some achieved functionings, due to structural dynamics and to variations of the institutional setting and...
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the coordination of different dispersed capabilities. Houthakker helps us to see more clearly that the benefits of … costs due to differences in capabilities. …
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