Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach
Publisher: Belknap Press
Published: Mar 31, 2011
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780674050549
Description: This is a primer on the "Capabilities Approach," Nussbaum's innovative model for assessing human progress. She argues that much humanitarian policy today violates basic human values; instead, she offers a unique means of redirecting government and development policy toward helping each of us lead a full and creative life.