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  1. Book Launch: The Social Construction of Capabilities in a Tamil Village

    …privileges are inherited and social mobility constrained? The Social Construction of Capabilities in a Tamil Village answers this question by analysing the intersections between caste, class and education, and argues that capabilities—that is, the competence or life skills one acquires through education—are socially constructed and not an inherent trait of the individual. L. N. Venkataraman is a Faculty at the Department of Policy Studies in TERI…

  2. Children and Youth: Updated Literature Review – March 2019

    …The Children and Youth thematic group is happy to share a revised literature review on children and the capability approach, updated as of March 2019. This is the result of a collective effort among TG members to help scholars and practitioners to navigate across existing materials. Click here to download….

  3. Amartya Sen Selected as Routledge ‘Great Economist’

    …Amartya Sen is being featured in the Routledge ‘Great Economists Series.’ A collection of articles about Sen’s work published in Routledge journals can be found on the Taylor & Francis website: http://explore.tandfonline.com/page/bes/great-economists/great-economists-sen…

  4. Ph.D. in International and Public Law, Ethics and Economics for Sustainable Development

    …ty of Milan, characterized by a large network of international cooperation worldwide. The LEES aims at the creation of a global interdisciplinary research community that shares a commitment to the goals of sustainability. With courses, seminars, and scientific research activities held entirely in English, it addresses the complexities involved in sustainable development and uses an innovative multidisciplinary approach that combines the contributi…

  5. Call for Papers: Journal of Global Ethics special issue

    …s the key driver of climate injustice. The expansion of production, infrastructure, and services has often ignored consideration of the broader ecosystem in which it occurs, under assumptions about an earth with endless resources and capacity to absorb human waste. One of the first and foremost connections between climate change and global development is that both involve a strong anthropocentric worldview; this has limited human understanding of…

  6. Call for papers – The Challenges of Future to the Social Sciences

    The Doctoral School of Sociology at the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Doctoral School of Political Science at the Faculty of Law, Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary) organize an international conference for doctoral students doing research in the field of social sciences. We invite submissions of proposals for presentations addressing any themes within these disciplines. A special section on children and youth is organized by the Ch…

  7. WEBINAR: On Capability, Human Development and Their Measurement

    Friday, 22 June 2018, 9 am UK Key-Note Address of the Cambridge Capability Conference by Dr. Mozaffar Qizilbash, University of York We invite you all to join us for a webinar where we will broadcast as a webinar the Key-Note address of the Cambridge Capability Conference which will take place this Friday, 22 June 2018 at 9:00am UK time. Dr. Mozaffar Qizilbash, University of York, will address the conference on the topic ‘On Capability, Human Deve…

  8. Opinion piece: “Stop obsessing over GDP when talking about the pandemic recovery”

    …very from the pandemic focus almost exclusively on growth in GDP, with little consideration for the kinds of goods and services that are produced, the kinds of jobs people do, the lives people are able to lead, and the environmental effects on our world. … ” Read the full opinion piece published August 10 on Business Insider: https://www.businessinsider.com/gdp-measure-pandemic-economic-recovery-inequality-poverty-jobs-2020-8 Written by HDCA Fel…

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