description: Sabina Alkire shows how Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen's capability approach can be coherently---and practically---put to work in poverty reduction activities. Sen argues that economic development should expand 'valuable' freedoms. Alkire probes how we identify what is valuable.Foundational issues are addressed critically---dimensions of development, practical reason, culture, basic needs---drawing on Thomist authors who give central place to authentic participation. A participatory procedure for identifying capability change is then developed. Case studies of threeOxfam activities in Pakistan---goat-rearing, female literacy, and rose cultivation---illustrate this novel approach.
language: English
title: Valuing Freedoms: Sen's Capability Approach and Poverty Reduction
titlecomplete: Valuing Freedoms: Sen's Capability Approach and Poverty Reduction
ratings_count: 7
publisher: Oxford University Press