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  1. 19th D. S. Borker Memorial Lecture: “My Vision of India: 2047 A.D.”

    …h, Delhi University) on Thursday 24 August 2017 at 6.30 p.m. at India International Centre Deshmukh Auditorium 40, Max Mueller Marg New Delhi (Please be seated by 6.20 p.m.) The D. S. Borker Lecture Series on “My Vision of India: 2047 A.D.” is a civil society initiative and was instituted in 1999. The lecture is held every year in the memory of D. S. Borker (1911-1979), Civil Servant and Public Sector Administrator, on August 24 at IIC-Deshmukh Au…

  2. WEBINAR: On Capability, Human Development and Their Measurement

    Friday, 22 June 2018, 9 am UK Key-Note Address of the Cambridge Capability Conference by Dr. Mozaffar Qizilbash, University of York We invite you all to join us for a webinar where we will broadcast as a webinar the Key-Note address of the Cambridge Capability Conference which will take place this Friday, 22 June 2018 at 9:00am UK time. Dr. Mozaffar Qizilbash, University of York, will address the conference on the topic ‘On Capability, Human Deve…

  3. Opinion piece: “Stop obsessing over GDP when talking about the pandemic recovery”

    …very from the pandemic focus almost exclusively on growth in GDP, with little consideration for the kinds of goods and services that are produced, the kinds of jobs people do, the lives people are able to lead, and the environmental effects on our world. … ” Read the full opinion piece published August 10 on Business Insider: https://www.businessinsider.com/gdp-measure-pandemic-economic-recovery-inequality-poverty-jobs-2020-8 Written by HDCA Fel…

  4. ZIF Summer School 2017 – Universität Bielefeld

    …r their own purposes and to obtain a supportive interdisciplinary and international network for future collaborations. This comprehends knowledge and skills on: The state of the art of poverty measurement The advantages of multidimensional poverty measurement with the Fuzzy Set Approach The basics, the logic and structure behind the concept of multidimensional poverty measurement and Fuzzy Set Approach Introduction to SAS Introduction to the use o…

  5. Call for Papers: Third CAMBRIDGE CAPABILITY CONFERENCE (CCC) – 2018

    “ON CAPABILITY INDICATORS FOR SUSTAINABLE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT” CALL FOR PAPERS Cambridge has been home to many researchers working on the Capability Approach. In 2016 we launched a new series of annual capability conferences along similar lines as the early capability conferences that we initiated back in 2001. The main objective was to recreate the intimate intellectual atmosphere, in-depth discussions and time for exchanges, having one hour per p…

  6. Webinar “Children’s feeling of Security: a view from the Capability Approach” July, 6th, 2018

    The Thematic Group “Children and The Youth” is happy to announce the first webinar of the TG “Children&Youth” Webinar Series! CHILDREN’S FEELING OF SECURITY: A VIEW FROM THE CAPABILITY APPROACH by Graciela Tonon, Denise Benatuil, Damián Molgaray and María Juliana Laurito CICS-UP, Master Program in Social Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, Universidad de Palermo, Argentina July 6th, 2018 10-11am New York, 11-12am Buenos Aires 3-4pm London, 7.30-…

  7. COVID-19 y Desarrollo Humano en América Latina: Hacia una nueva agenda de investigación, políticas y responsabilidad social

    3 y 5 de junio 17:30 a 19:00 hrs (UTC-5) El Instituto de Desarrollo Humano de América Latina en colaboración con la Dirección Académica de Responsabilidad Social – PUCP (DARS) lanza el ciclo de webinars «Covid-19 y Desarrollo Humano en América Latina: Hacia una agenda de investigación, políticas y responsabilidad social». Este se orientará a generar discusión en torno a la relación entre #Covid19 y #desarrollohumano, en seis países de la región….

  8. Call for Papers: Child Poverty and Social Work

    …his Special Issue will analyze how power imbalances within institutions, structural inequalities, and systemic barriers affect vulnerable families and deepen cycles of poverty. Contributors are invited to investigate the economic and social as well as the mental and emotional burdens that child and family poverty inflict, particularly the experiences of shame, social exclusion, and stigmatization, which compound poverty’s effects. By addressing th…

  9. Final Newsletter of the GeNECA project on Sustainable Development and the Capability Approach

    …pability Approach ended a year ago. Attached you find the seventh and last newsletter of the project (as there still are some ongoing activities following from this project, we will update the homepage from time to time). We are happy about the project, enjoyed our cooperation and are glad that we could contribute to linking the discussions on sustainable development and on the Capability Approach. We now have more clarity on where the CA can cont…

  10. Award-winning book on re-imagining the university from a human development and capabilities perspective

    The book Human Development and Capabilities: Re-imagining the university of the twenty-first century, co-edited by Alejandra Boni and Melanie Walker and published by Routledge in 2013, has just been awarded the prestigious Manuel Castillo award in Spain for stimulating ‘academic, scientific and journalist research in cooperation, peace and human development fields’. A Spanish translation of parts of the book is being considered to facilitate wide…

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