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  1. Amartya Sen Awarded 2020 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade

    …ork to combat social inequality in education and healthcare is as relevant today as ever. Among Sen’s most important contributions is the idea of evaluating a society’s wealth not solely based on economic growth indices, but also on the opportunities for development available to all individuals who comprise that society, in particular its weakest members. Read more here A related article about Amartya Sen, written by philosopher Christian Neuhäuse…

  2. The Capability Approach Applied to Child Growth and Development

    …working for a number of years on reconceptualizing the measurements we use worldwide to monitor child growth and development. She has been using both the normative and technical aspects of the capabilities approach to go beyond the height and weight (functionings, discrete outcomes) measurements currently in use. You can read more about her work in this interview on the Dutch research council – NWO’s website. https://www.nwo.nl/en/cases/growing-so…

  3. Open Access Book: ‘Learning, Marginalization, and Improving the Quality of Education in Low-income Countries’

    …mong poor and marginalized children. This volume builds on the second international conference on Learning at the Bottom of the Pyramid (LBOP2). It will be an indispensable resource for policymakers, researchers and government thinktanks, and local experts, as well as any readers interested in the implementation of learning equity across the globe. The first volume Learning at the Bottom of the Pyramid (LBOP1), may be obtained at: http://www.iiep….

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