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  1. 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…

  2. OPEN ACCESS: Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice: The Capability Approach Re-Examined

    …n within and outside the capability approach. It does so in a way which is readable and clear, and it manages to avoid on the one hand being too polemical, and on the other hand being too superficial. Ingrid Robeyns is uniquely well-placed to write such a book, being herself a well-established inter-disciplinary scholar whose work has contributed enormously to the development of the capability approach over the years. It has been a frustration for…

  3. Call for Papers: Perspectives and Theories of Social Innovation for Ageing Population

    …the practice of responding to social problems and challenges. One of the crucial challenges at the beginning of the 21st century is population ageing. Various new and innovative initiatives, programs, schemes, and projects to respond to negative consequences of this demographic process are emerging around the world. However, social theories related to ageing are still insufficiently combined with these new practices, social movements, organisatio…

  4. Special Issue of ‘Dimensions’: OPHI 10th Anniversary

    …Enjoy this special edition of ‘Dimensions’ which provides a 10-year retrospective on the impact of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative. Contributions by Amartya Sen, Michael Spence, Anthony Shorrocks and former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet. Interviews with James Foster, Frances Stewart, and María Emma Santos. Click here to read online or download…

  5. HDCA WEBINAR: Work in progress on developing measures using the CA

    …r help/ideas from the group (on possible approaches to problems, things to read etc.). That should leave us c.30mins for broader discussion, where other students can also ask for advice about their own work on capability-based measures. The idea is to have a collaborative open discussion on work in progress, rather than present results. Presentations: 1. Mateus Humberto – “Measuring the CA concepts into the domain of urban mobility: capabilities,…

  6. WEBINAR: “Epistemic Injustice and the Capability Approach”

    …More specifically, she studies how the subject’s capacity of offering the truth is influenced by credibility excess or deficit based on identity prejudices (2007). Furthermore, she considers the notion of epistemic contribution as a central human capability discussing the capacity of epistemic giving and reciprocity in the pool of shared epistemic materials (2015). In the webinar, we will critically discuss Fricker’s contribution and explore its r…

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