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  1. IHDP Writing Contest on “Beyond GDP”

    …print and online version of the magazine (1st place: $500; 2nd place: $200; 3rd place: $100). Deadline for submission: 15 October, 2013 Full details and instructions are available on the IHDP website, http://www.ihdp.unu.edu/article/read/contest…

  2. New Publication! The Capability Approach: From Theory to Practice

    …bility approach can be applied and what challenges are encountered in these applications. The book also provides useful insights into how these challenges can be overcome. It is a must read for all those wishing to apply the capability approach on poverty, children, environment, macro-economic policy and national policymaking….

  3. Henry Richardson Awarded 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship in Philosophy

    …y that I have been abstractly defending for some time now. I call it “constructive ethical pragmatism,” honoring John Dewey’s insight that our “practical intelligence” makes us capable of reframing our deepest commitments on the fly, on the basis of reasons that arise in the context of action.” Read more at: https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/henry-s-richardson/ The Guggenheim Foundation offers Fellowships to further the development of scholar…

  4. Seminar: ‘Capabilitarianism and education’

    …e followed by comments from Elaine Unterhalter (Professor of Education and International Development, UCL Institute of Education) and Alejandra Boni (Associate Professor, Universitat Politècnica de València). If you would like to read the paper, ‘Capabilitarianism’ beforehand, it was published in 2016 in the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, Vol 17 Issue 3, pp 397-414. Please email Rosie Peppin Vaughan ahead of the event if you would…

  5. In Memoriam – Tony Atkinson, 1944-2017

    …the sole author of the report, Monitoring Global Poverty. The report is already recognized to be a landmark document which will frame the work of the World Bank and other agencies in the years to come. Characteristically, while Tony presented detailed technical critiques and recommendations on income based measures of poverty, he also highlighted and emphasized that poverty was multidimensional and that monitoring non-income deprivation was a cen…

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