The capability approach is a versatile framework rooted on issues of justice and multidimensional assessment of quality of life developed in the 1980s as an alternative approach to prevailing mainstream development ideas focused narrowly on economic development. Most closely associated with the...

To achieve high economic growth rates and raise standard of living is the objective of all countries, whether developed or developing. But does this imply that the benefits of growth would accrue both to the poor and the non-poor? Large inequalities in income distribution have been observed in a...