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Capability Association

Multi-Disciplinary and People-Centred

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  1. Regional networks

    …To date, the main activity of the association is the organization of its bi-annual conference. Previous conferences have been organized in Mexico City (2006,Universidad Iberoamericana), Montevideo (2008, Universidad de laRepublica), Porto Alegre (2010, Pontificia Universidad de Rio Grande doSul) Buenos Aires (2012, Universidad Lomas de Zamora), Lima (2014, Pontificia Universidad Católica delPerú). Asia-Pacific Network The Asia-Pacific Regional Ne…

  2. Special issue ‘Information Technology for Development’ on CA

    …Technology for Development’ has just published a special issue on the capability approach. It contains 6 articles, some of them written by members of our thematic group. The articles are: Development as freedom; how the Capability Approach can be used in ICT4D research and practice (editorial) – Annika Andersson, Åke Grönlund & Gudrun Wicander Building collective capabilities through ICT in a mountain region of Nepal: where social capital leads to…

  3. ZIF Summer School 2017 – Universität Bielefeld

    …roach to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement 1-8 August 2017 http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/erziehungswissenschaft/zif/ We would like to cordially invite PhD and Post-Doc scholars to a Summer School at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research of the University of Bielefeld exploring the Fuzzy Set Approach as an alternative to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement. Experts in the field are recruited in order to provide the best knowledge and skills t…

  4. New Book: “The Creation of the Human Development Approach”

    …ject Researcher in the University of Tokyo, Japan, and a supervisor specializing in the human development approach and the human development index at the University of Cambridge, UK. Summary This book examines the main reasons and challenges for the success of the human development approach both in theory and practice as an alternative to the economic growth model. Unlike the preceding research which has typically been either theoretical/prescript…

  5. 2020 Disability Studies Conference – Auckland, NZ

    …submission guidelines and to submit your abstract please check out our website: www.disabilitystudiesconference.co.nz We hope you will share information about the Conference with interested colleagues. If you no longer wish to receive emails about the Conference, please email requesting to be removed from our mailing list. Please contact the team at dsc2020@auckland.ac.nz or call Ashley at +64 9 923 9225 if you are using a screen reader and the a…

  6. TERI University – BLISS School 2016 on Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns

    …t Goal (SDG)-12. For over a decade, countries have viewed SCP as a pre-requisite for achieving the objective of sustainable development also highlighted in the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation (JPOI) of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, 2002. The European Union (EU), recognizing the need to promote SCP practices and thereby achieve sustainable economic development, resource efficiency, and poverty reduction, has made SCP a prime focu…

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