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  1. Final Newsletter of the GeNECA project on Sustainable Development and the Capability Approach

    …on where the CA can contribute to furthering sustainability, where more research is needed, and for which problems related to the implementation of sustainability the CA cannot give satisfying answers. We are certain that we meet many of you again and hope that we all contribute to a sustainable human development. Ortrud Lessmann and Felix Rauschmayer for Jürgen, Peter, Torsten, Rebecca, Ines, Mirijam, and many more who actively supported our wor…

  2. Award-winning book on re-imagining the university from a human development and capabilities perspective

    …ty of the twenty-first century, co-edited by Alejandra Boni and Melanie Walker and published by Routledge in 2013, has just been awarded the prestigious Manuel Castillo award in Spain for stimulating ‘academic, scientific and journalist research in cooperation, peace and human development fields’. A Spanish translation of parts of the book is being considered to facilitate wider dissemination. The award ceremony takes place in Valencia on 20 May 2…

  3. Workshop: Advances in stochastic dominance for welfare analysis

    …emia, in particular for the design of development policy. Papers linking research and policy are particularly welcome. Keynote speakers: James Foster (Institute for International Economic Policy, George Washington University), Alain Trannoy (EHESS and Aix-Marseille School of Economics).   Submission process: Submissions of complete papers, in pdf format, are expected by July 1st, 2014. Submissions should be sent to Kelly Labart at conference@ferdi…

  4. Call for Papers: 1st International Conference on Aporophobia

    …on the dignity of the most vulnerable people in our societies, making the lives of the poor much harder and the work of the institutions that try to help them. Aporophobia adds discrimination, prejudice and stigma to the burden of poverty. It diminishes societies’ support for social policies. It weakens the degree of progressivity of governments’ taxes and public spending. Aporophobia magnifies other kinds of discrimination, such as gender and ra…

  5. WEBINAR: Inclusive Data and Statistics: Human Development and Disability in Low- and Middle-income Countries

    …d surveys from 21 LMICs. Findings have implications for data collection, research and policy. Speaker’s Bio: Sophie Mitra is professor of economics and founding director of the Research Consortium on Disability at Fordham University in New York City. She has studied the economic impact of disability and mental illness, the effects of social protection programs, multidimensional poverty, the association between disability and poverty, the definitio…

  6. 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…

  7. CfP: Workshop “Children on the Move: Philosophy and Child Migration”

    …thics and Poverty Research, University of Salzburg Organizers: Johannes Drerup (Koblenz-Landau) and Gottfried Schweiger (Salzburg) Submissions: 750 words before 1 December 2018 to gottfried.schweiger@sbg.ac.at Workshop website: www.povertyresearch.org/children-on-the-move Background The so-called “refugee crisis” made migration the No. 1 political topic in many countries across the globe. This is mirrored by an unprecedented height in scholarly at…

  8. Call for Papers: CAPABILITIES AT WORK: EMPIRICAL APPLICATIONS OF THE CAPABILITIES APPROACH FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ENDEAVOURS

    …creasingly suggesting the resort to capabilities as a focus for activist struggles and research endeavours (Schlosberg 2007; Ballet et al. 2013; Holland 2014; Martin 2017; Day 2017). Furthermore, the original focus of capabilities on human well-being has been recently theorised in its relation to EJ (Edwards et al. 2016). Criticism on the arguably individualistic stance of the original CA has triggered the development of another literature strand

  9. Call for Abstract / Papers for an Edited Volume: “Application of Capability Approach to Achieving Sustainable Development Goals”

    …ity, UK. Currently a Senior Lecturer at the Coventry University, UK. His research interests (in the interdisciplinary fields of law, politics/IR, & international development) include international law & global development; the rule of law & economic development process; human development & capability approach; poverty-conflict nexus; inequality, crime, injustice, and development. • Relevant publications: – Ikejiaku, Brian, Migration, Poverty, the…

  10. Award Winning Book – “Fulfilling Social and Economic Rights”

    …”Fulfilling Social and Economic Rights” (OUP 2015, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Terra Lawson-Remer and Susan Randolph) has received the Best Book in Human Rights Scholarship Award of the American Political Science Association. The book is written from the capability perspective on human rights….

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