ANT 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Capability Approach
4 Dec 2017
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Four approaches take different views on these issues and each has problems of interpretation. Utilitarian basis: poverty is deprivation of money income = utility. In principle includes all income in money metric. in practice omits social goods. Poverty attributed to individuals but measured by family income/consumption. Sen"s capability approach to development- the objective is to enhance individual"s capabilities to be or do different things. Poverty is the failure of some basic capability to function . Basic capabilities are intended to separate out the ability to satisfy certain elementary and crucially important functionings . Monetary income is a means only (and only one of several) Adopted in europe, spreading to developing countries. Monetary and capability are individualistic; don"t look at group situation, nor dynamics. Social exclusion is intended to capture structural features of poverty. Developed in europe: includes unemployment, lack of social insurance, lack of housing and low monetary incomes. Monetary capability and social exclusion impose external values.
