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Capability Association

Agency, Well-Being and Justice

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  1. Francophone Africa Network: Introduction

    …ne Africa. Activities : The RN organizes quarterly video meetings to share news and prepare activities such as participation in conferences, developing a bibliography data base, organizing webinars and meetings, submitting research projects across countries and linking with African associations with similar aims. Current activities include the organization of a session at the Sofia Conference, planning a webinar early November on Negative Capabili…

  2. WEBINAR: Facing Inequality: Multidimensional Poverty in the U.S

    …es CNSTAT Panel on Improving Consumer Data for Food and Nutrition Policy Research for the Economic Research Service, USDA and she is a co-editor of the American Journal of Health Economics. Sabina Alkire directs the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI). She is the Associate Professor of Development Studies in the Oxford Department of International Development at the University of Oxford. Her research interests include multidimens…

  3. HDCA Member Views on the Capability Approach

    …h, UK It is a way of looking at the world from the perspective of people’s lives. How well are people doing in given situations? Are they able to live in dignity? If not, what is preventing them from living well? Take for example a 15 year girl who’s lost her family to HIV/AIDS and can’t find another way of making a living but by being a sex worker. The capability approach asks in that situation: What is it that the girl would aspire to be or do?…

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