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Human Development &
Capability Association

Agency, Well-Being and Justice

Prof. Monica Yukie Kuwahara

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  • Position: Professor
  • Department: Economics
  • Affiliation: Federal University of ABC - UFABC - Brazil
  • Biographical info: Monica Yukie Kuwahara is an economist with a degree from the University of Campinas (Unicamp), a Master’s in Latin American Integration from Prolam-USP, and a PhD in Communication Sciences from ECA-USP. She is a faculty member in the Bachelor’s Program in Economic Sciences (BCE) and serves as a professor and coordinator of the Graduate Program in Economics (PPGE) at the Federal University of ABC (UFABC). Her research is both intersectional and pluralistic, encompassing well-being economics, human development indicators, and environmental sustainability. She seeks to apply the Capability Approach to analyze gender inequalities and to conduct socio-economic studies on urban quality of life, with a particular emphasis on mobility and sanitation.

Research interests:
Quality of life; Inequality; Gender; Sustainable Human Development.

Thematic Groups:
Gender and Sexuality Horizontal Inequality Quantitative Research Methods Sustainable Human Development

Regional Network:
Latin American Network

About Monica Yukie Kuwahara

Monica Yukie Kuwahara is an economist with a degree from the University of Campinas (Unicamp), a Master’s in Latin American Integration from Prolam-USP, and a PhD in Communication Sciences from ECA-USP. She is a faculty member in the Bachelor’s Program in Economic Sciences (BCE) and serves as a professor and coordinator of the Graduate Program in Economics (PPGE) at the Federal University of ABC (UFABC). Her research is both intersectional and pluralistic, encompassing well-being economics, human development indicators, and environmental sustainability. She seeks to apply the Capability Approach to analyze gender inequalities and to conduct socio-economic studies on urban quality of life.

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