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Capability Association

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  1. The Capability Approach Applied to Child Growth and Development

    …s 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-much-more-height-and-weight…

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

    …ent among 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….

  3. HDCA Member Views on the Capability Approach

    …meaning and importance of the CA. Séverine Deneulin Associate Professor in International Development, University of Bath, 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…

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