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  1. OPEN ACCESS BOOK: Sense and Solidarity: Jholawala Economics for Everyone

    by Jean Dreze, Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, Ranchi University, India A wide-ranging collection of articles on social development in India authored by prominent economist and expert Jean Dreze Includes a detailed introduction on the basic principles of ‘research for action’ Provides a retrospective on social policy debates in India during the last 15 years A unique insight into social development in India Jean Dreze, development ec…

  2. JHDC Special Issue Call for Papers – Communities and Capabilities

    …ders the importance of freedom of choice, individual heterogeneity and multi-dimensional nature of welfare. Human capabilities are constructed in terms of the substantive freedoms people have a reason to value, rather than of their utility or access to resources. It emphasizes not only the way human beings actually function but also their capability, which is a practical choice that will allow them to function in important ways, if they wish to do…

  3. Latin American Network: Introduction

    …atin America both in Spanish and Portuguese. It has organized a number of bi-annual conferences that had taken place in different cities in the region such as México City (2006, Universidad Iberoamericana), Montevideo (2008, 2016, Universidad de la República), Porto Alegre (2010, Pontificia Universidad de Rio Grande do Sul), Buenos Aires (2012, Universidad Lomas de Zamora), Lima (2014, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú) and Puebla (2019, Un…

  4. Webinar Discussion: Democratising Measurement: A Case Study from Well-Being Public Policy.

    …asurement-a-case-study-from-well-being-public-policy-tickets-147848084601# — 2021 Webinar Series: Multidimensional Well-Being: Concepts, Measurement, & Application April – July 2021 The webinar series brings together and into conversation established scholars, junior researchers, and practitioners working to conceptualise, measure, and improve multidimensional well-being. It addresses and allows for discussion regarding both long-standing and co…

  5. WEBINAR: From Human Development to Sustainable Human Development

    …es in relation to (un)sustainable development, climate change and the SDGs — for example: (1) with A.V. Portocarrero, A.L. St.Clair, 1a) 2013: The Framing of Climate Change and Development: A Comparative Analysis of the Human Development Report 2007/8 and the World Development Report 2010. Global Environmental Change, 23(1): 28-39; 1b) 2013: An Analysis of the Human Development Report 2011 ‘Sustainability and Equity: A Better Future for All’. S….

  6. JUST PUBLISHED! The Cambridge Handbook of the Capability Approach

    …as new research from leading scholars in this increasingly influential multi-disciplinary field, including the pioneers of capability research, Martha C. Nussbaum and Amartya Sen. Incorporating both approachable introductory chapters and more in-depth analysis relating to the central philosophical, conceptual and theoretical issues of capability research, this handbook also includes analytical and measurement tools, as well as policy approaches wh…

  7. ESPAnet 2022 conference – Stream: Citizen Social Science and Social Innovation: New Practices for the Local Evidence-Based Social Policies

    …ESPAnet 2022 conference, Vienna (14-16 September 2022). Stream/Track 7: “Citizen Social Science and Social Innovation: New Practices for the Local Evidence-Based Social Policies” Timeline: Deadline for abstracts submission: 4 April Notification of acceptance: 13 May Deadline for papers submission: 15 August Conference: 14-16 September Available Presentation Forms: in-person or online; posters and papers. Abstract Submission (max 500 words): https…

  8. The right to science | UN general comment | Ideas for collaboration

    …ex (here: https://www.freedomofresearch.org/research-and-self-determination-index/ ). The current pandemic is giving us additional impulse to promote a more visible and prominent debate on the ‘right to science’ as human right: a right that, we feel, matters today possibly more than it did so far. The link between this right and human development is self-evident I think – and as such it is explicitly mentioned on our website (https://www.sciencefo…

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