Understanding and Fighting Poverty – Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach and Related Theories

Understanding and Fighting Poverty – Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach and Related Theories

This article scrutinises the usefulness of Sen’s capability approach and other related theories for understanding poverty and traceability of social-welfare interventions. In addition to the capability approach three macro level approaches are discussed: the welfare regime approach of Esping-Anderse...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Knech Alban
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2012-12-01
Series:Social Change Review
Subjects:
capability approach
early child intervention
poverty alleviation
resource based theory
resource-oriented theory
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/scr-2013-0016

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https://doi.org/10.2478/scr-2013-0016

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