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Transforming Social Policies and Institutions in a Capability Perspective: Agency, Voice and the Capability to Aspire Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-21 Jean-Michel Bonvin, Francesco Laruffa
The article suggests that putting the enhancement of capability to aspire and capability for voice centre stage of the design and implementation of social policies would entail a deep-seated transf...
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A Reparative Lens for Exploring Youth Aspirations in South African Universities Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-13 Melanie Walker
In South Africa, low-income rural black youth are assumed to exhibit endurance in their higher education agency while yet not really being agentic, because they accommodate an oppressive university...
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First Rule: Keep Pedalling. Co-Theorising with Food-Delivery Workers How to Make Digital Platforms Capability-Enhancing Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 Pietro Ghirlanda
In both academic and public debate, there is an increasing consensus that digital labour platforms can have both positive and negative impacts on digital workers’ well-being. This article has two a...
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The Construction of a Human Development Index at the Household Level and the Measurement of Human Development Disparities in Punjab (Pakistan) Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-06 Tanveer Ahmed Naveed, David Gordon
The key objectives of this research study are to construct a valid and reliable household-based Human Development Index (HDI) and to estimate human development disparities in 36 districts of Punjab...
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Relational Empowerment and Ethnic Minority Women in Vietnam: How Do Household and Community Relations Matter? Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-04 Joan DeJaeghere, Hue Le, Phuong Luong, Nga Thi Hang Ngo, Thanh Thi Vu, Nancy Pellowski Wiger, Jongwook Lee
Empowerment projects and research have focused on marginalised women, but often with less attention to the intersectional and relational conditions affecting their marginalisation. Ethnic minority ...
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The Capabilities Divide: ICT Adoption and Use among Bedouin in Israel Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-04 Avi Marciano, Amit M. Schejter, Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar
The Bedouin community, a subpopulation of the Arab minority in Israel, has been subject to systematic discrimination throughout the state’s history, including in accessibility to digital services. ...
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How Economic Sanctions Affect Human Development: Evidence and Policy Implications Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 F. Rodríguez
This article reviews the empirical evidence regarding the effect of economic sanctions on human development outcomes and discusses possible avenues for reform of the current sanctions regime to red...
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How is the Capability Approach Applied to Assess Well-being Impacts? A Systematic Review Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 Livia Bartolomei, Genowefa Blundo-Canto, Pasquale De Muro
A shift in how to measure well-being using more appropriate and coherent indicators has been long called for. Nonetheless, monetary indicators, such as income and GDP, or utilitarian frameworks, re...
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The right to higher education: a political theory Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-02 Jandhyala B G Tilak
Published in Journal of Human Development and Capabilities: A Multi-Disciplinary Journal for People-Centered Development (Vol. 25, No. 3, 2024)
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Implementing Inequality: The Invisible Labour of International Development Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-18 Saleh Ahmed
Published in Journal of Human Development and Capabilities: A Multi-Disciplinary Journal for People-Centered Development (Vol. 25, No. 3, 2024)
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Message from the Editor Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Alejandra Boni Aristizábal
Published in Journal of Human Development and Capabilities: A Multi-Disciplinary Journal for People-Centered Development (Vol. 25, No. 2, 2024)
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How Institutional Economics May Support the Analysis of Individual and Collective Capabilities Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Irene van Staveren
The analysis in this article starts from the recognition that institutions make an important part of the Capability Approach, as conversion factors from resources to capabilities and as affecting a...
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Measuring the Development Progress of Least Developed Countries: In the Context of World Development Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Henry H. Bi
This article measures the ten-year development progress of 47 least developed countries (LDCs) based on comparing the development performances of 217 countries and economies. A methodology based on...
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Democratising Participatory Research: Pathways to Social Justice from the South Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 César Osorio Sánchez
Published in Journal of Human Development and Capabilities: A Multi-Disciplinary Journal for People-Centered Development (Vol. 25, No. 2, 2024)
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Future-oriented Codesign Workshops as a Method of Empowering Citizens in Urban Infrastructure Development: A Capabilitarian Analysis Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Chiara Gasperoni, Camille-Charlotte Gilbert-Lapointe, Lya Porto, Franck Scherrer, Rafael Ziegler
Urban mobility infrastructures have a major impact on the everyday life of city residents. Not only their mobility, but also their health, enjoyment of life and development of lifestyle preferences...
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The Triple Day Thesis Versus Neoclassical Models of Labour Supply: Alternative Perspectives and Policies Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Tracey Freiberg, Deon Frederick Gibson, Elaine Agyemang Tontoh
In this theoretical paper, we respond to the Triple Day Thesis (TDT) by positioning it within the context of the neoclassical labour supply literature and existing public policy. The TDT applies a ...
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Operationalising the Capability Approach for Healthy Child Growth via a Participatory Method: An Illustrative Case in Haor Areas of Bangladesh Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Barnali Chakraborty, Shrinivas Darak, Haisma Hinke
The Task Force “Towards a Multidimensional Index to Child Growth”, within the International Union of Nutritional Sciences, developed a capability framework for child growth (CFCG). This framework a...
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Artificial Intelligence, Human Development and Impact Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Paul Anand
Published in Journal of Human Development and Capabilities: A Multi-Disciplinary Journal for People-Centered Development (Vol. 25, No. 2, 2024)
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Women and Invisible Boundaries: A Case of Slippage in Sanitation in Two Gram Panchayats, Shravasti, UP, India Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-31 Kopal Khare, Lavanya Suresh
Sustainable management of water and sanitation is inextricably linked with women’s health and well-being. This paper investigates slippage in sanitation, experienced by women beneficiaries of the S...
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Hijacked: how neoliberalism turned the work ethic against workers and how workers can take it back Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Rafael Ziegler
Published in Journal of Human Development and Capabilities: A Multi-Disciplinary Journal for People-Centered Development (Vol. 25, No. 2, 2024)
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Measuring Housing Inequality with the Value of Freedom in the Capability Approach: Proposal and Demonstration Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Boram Kimhur
An ongoing question in capability research is how to incorporate the value of freedom into the measurement of inequality. This article proposes an approach to answering this question in the housing...
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Response to the 2023 Human Security Policy Forum Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Brendan M. Howe
The February 2022 UNDP Special Report (SR) on Human Security, “New threats to human security in the Anthropocene: Demanding greater solidarity” marked a welcome return by the UN body to the field i...
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Repair in Education Spaces Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Melanie Walker
The paper discusses repair as valuable for thinking about and acting towards sustainable human development. Repair asks us to take account of intersections of past, present, and reimagined futures;...
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Measurement Is Not Everything, But It Does Make a Difference Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 S. Subramanian
With the help of the Human Development Index, Mahbub ul Haq demonstrated that by focusing attention away from an exclusive concern with income as the only dimension in which to assess well-being, m...
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Affiliation as Solidarity: Perspective of Vulnerable Groups Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Ana Petek, Ana Gavran Miloš, Nebojša Zelič
This paper aims to contribute to the understanding of affiliation by developing a contextually sensitive mid-level theory comprising specific elements, layers, and factors of affiliation. Vulnerabl...
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Labour Law, Employees’ Capability for Voice, and Wellbeing: A Framework for Evaluation Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Cherise Regier
Labour power has significantly declined across affluent democracies in recent decades, resulting in a widening scale of power inequality within the contemporary employment relationship. Employee vo...
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Realising Capabilities for Street Young People in Harare, Zimbabwe: A New Approach to Social Protection Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Witness Chikoko, Lorraine van Blerk, Janine Hunter, Wayne Shand
Living in social contexts characterised by poverty and inequality, street young people have limited access to healthcare, water sanitation and hygiene services; exacerbating effects of ill health, ...
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The Capability Approach, Pedagogic Rights and Course Design: Developing Autonomy and Reflection through Student-Led, Individually Created Courses Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Rowan Murray
University education can provide more than discipline knowledge development. It can also develop lifelong skills such as autonomy, critical reflection, and independent thought. With its concern for...
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A Minimal Capabilities-Based Account of Loss and Damage Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-21 Laura García-Portela
The topic of loss and damage has generated contentious debates in international policymaking and climate negotiations. Up until now, political agreements have been possible because of the use of am...
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Message from the Editor Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti
Published in Journal of Human Development and Capabilities: A Multi-Disciplinary Journal for People-Centered Development (Vol. 24, No. 4, 2023)
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Economic Policies for Human Development: A Neglected Domain Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Deepak Nayyar
Published in Journal of Human Development and Capabilities: A Multi-Disciplinary Journal for People-Centered Development (Vol. 24, No. 4, 2023)
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Rethinking Development in Latin America Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 José Antonio Ocampo, Daniel Titelman
Latin American countries face a crossroad that demands profound change in their development paradigm. In the last four decades economic growth, investment, and productivity have shown poor performa...
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Economic and Social Policies for Human Development Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Deepak Nayyar, Rajeev Malhotra
Economic and social policies of governments could improve or worsen the wellbeing of people, so that their impact on human development could be positive or negative. This article discusses the role...
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Amartya Sen, Karl Polanyi, and Universal Basic Income Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Oleksandr Svitych
This paper develops a Polanyian capabilitarian framework to understand and justify the universal basic income. I combine Amartya Sen’s capabilities approach with Karl Polanyi’s substantive view of ...
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A Development Economist in the United Nations: Reasons for Hope Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Michael Askwith
Published in Journal of Human Development and Capabilities: A Multi-Disciplinary Journal for People-Centered Development (Vol. 24, No. 4, 2023)
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Radical Housing: Designing Multi-Generational and Co-Living Housing for All Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Ravin Ponniah
Published in Journal of Human Development and Capabilities: A Multi-Disciplinary Journal for People-Centered Development (Vol. 24, No. 4, 2023)
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A Common Good Approach to Development Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Dirk Philipsen
Published in Journal of Human Development and Capabilities: A Multi-Disciplinary Journal for People-Centered Development (Vol. 24, No. 4, 2023)
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Notice of Duplicate Publication: Inclusive Financial Development Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-08-30
Published in Journal of Human Development and Capabilities: A Multi-Disciplinary Journal for People-Centered Development (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Macroeconomic Policies for a Sustainable World Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Frances Stewart
The urgency of the climate crisis is such that it needs to inform most policy-making. It represents a major threat to human development. Yet while the existence of the crisis is generally acknowled...
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Why is Macroeconomics Neglected in Equity and Inclusion Strategies for Sustainable Development? An Exploration of Four Systemic Barriers Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Kate Donald
The literatures on Macroeconomics and Human development and capabilities have been described as constituting “two different worlds” that never intersect despite the importance of macroeconomics for...
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Fossil Fuel Industry Phase-Out and Just Transition: Designing Policies to Protect Workers’ Living Standards Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-08-09 Robert Pollin
This paper focuses on transition policies targeted at supporting workers now employed in the fossil fuel industries and ancillary sectors within high-income economies. As a general normative princi...
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Inequality and Capabilities in an Era of Rising Instability Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-08-09 Giovanni Andrea Cornia
This paper reviews the trends in income inequality over the last 40 years, and proposes a new explanation for their evolution – that it is hoped will be tested empirically by many studies in the ye...
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The Quality of Work (QoW): Towards a Capability Theory Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Thomas C. Stephens
ABSTRACT This paper introduces a comprehensive conceptual framework for measuring the Quality of Work (QoW) using the Capability Approach (CA). Drawing from [Robeyns,, Ingrid. 2017. Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice: The Capability Approach Re-Examined. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers.] modular framework for developing Capability Theories, it proposes we conceive of work as a body of resources
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Measuring poverty around the world Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Maria Emma Santos
Published in Journal of Human Development and Capabilities: A Multi-Disciplinary Journal for People-Centered Development (Vol. 24, No. 3, 2023)
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Capabilities, Rights, and Responsibilities: Insights from Catholic Social Teaching Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Marc V. Rugani
ABSTRACT Often referred to as the church’s “best kept secret”, Catholic social teaching (CST) has much that commends it to those employing the capabilities approach to frame and justify proposals to both shape structures of solidarity and organise collective decision making with an emphasis on personal participation. The permanent principles of CST – dignity of the human person, solidarity, subsidiarity
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Becoming a Teacher: The Liminal Identities and Political Agency of Refugee Teachers Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-06-24 Zehra Keser Ozmantar, Melis Cin, Faith Mkwananzi
ABSTRACT This paper engages with the experiences of refugee teachers through an identity-based conceptualisation of the capability approach to explore these teachers’ social environment, working conditions, values, and lived experiences. The research builds on the teachers’ capabilities literature to argue that norms, dynamics, and identities shape their political agency, opportunities, and constraints
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Who Matters at the World Bank? Bureaucrats, Policy Change, and Public Sector Governance Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Marie Phaneuf
Published in Journal of Human Development and Capabilities: A Multi-Disciplinary Journal for People-Centered Development (Vol. 24, No. 3, 2023)
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Welfare Poverty Measurement Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Antonio Villar
ABSTRACT This paper proposes an approach to poverty measurement based on the interpretation of poverty as a welfare loss, along the lines laid in Chakravarty [Chakravarty, S. R. 1983. “Ethically Flexible Measures of Poverty.” Canadian Journal of Economics 16: 74–85]. A multidimensional poverty index is derived here from a social welfare function and a vector of poverty thresholds, following the aggregate
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The Incidence and Age Distribution of Death: Mortality by Caste, Gender, and Sector of Origin in India in the Mid-2010s Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-05-24 S. Subramanian
ABSTRACT This paper considers the distribution of mortality across social groups classified by caste, gender and sector of origin in India in the mid-2010s: as such, the essay is intended to be both a methodological/measurement-oriented study and a substantive empirical assessment of an important dimension of human functioning in India. The analysis is carried out employing micro-data on the age-distributions
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Strategies for Researching Programs’ Impact on Capability: A Scoping Review Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Wouter J. Rijke, Jan Meerman, Bart Bloemen, Sridhar Venkatapuram, Jac Van der Klink, Gert Jan Van der Wilt
ABSTRACT Researchers seeking to assess the impact of a program on the capability of its target audience face numerous methodological challenges. The purpose of our review was to see to what extent such challenges are recognised and what choices researchers made in order to address them, and why. We identified 3354 studies by searching five databases in addition to cross-checking references from selected
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Participatory Wellbeing Frameworks and the Secret to Impact Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Kate Sollis
ABSTRACT Research and policy based on the Capability Approach inherently seeks to improve the lives of individuals and communities in a meaningful way. One operationalisation of this is the development of participatory wellbeing frameworks, which ask communities “what does wellbeing mean to you?”. However, there has so far been very little understanding on the extent to which participatory wellbeing
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Marginality and Citizenship Education in Secondary Vocational and Technical Education (VTE). A Vision from the Capability Approach Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Camila Rasse, María Paola Sevilla
ABSTRACT The capability approach provides a broader view of Vocational and Technical Education (VTE), acknowledging its multiple purposes, including citizenship preparation for discussing and challenging the rules and practices prevailing in society. Based on ethnographic data, this paper seeks to understand how two Chilean high schools conceptualise their students and VTE, concerning their students’
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Knowledge, Knowers, and Capabilities: Can the Capabilities Approach Help Decolonise the Curriculum? Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Daniel Talbot
ABSTRACT The Capabilities Approach and the movement to Decolonise the Curriculum contain powerful intellectual and practical possibilities for changing the way societies conceive of education and its purpose. The former presents a bold set of educational aims offering an alternative to market-driven human capital approaches. The latter seeks to undo the legacy of colonialism that still echoes through
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Humane Security: Solidarity in Policy and Practice Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-04-15 Su-ming Khoo
ABSTRACT This paper responds to the UNDP 2022 Special Report on Human Security in the Anthropocene (hereafter ‘UNDP Special Report’, UNDP 2022), and HDCA Human Security Thematic Group’s sessions at the 2022 HDCA Antwerp conference, focused on interrogating the ‘soul’ of the human security concept. In order to facilitate the practical implementation of human security principles, I offer six integrative
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Citadels of Pride: Sexual Assault, Accountability, and Reconciliation Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Lori Keleher
Published in Journal of Human Development and Capabilities: A Multi-Disciplinary Journal for People-Centered Development (Vol. 24, No. 2, 2023)
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Migration, Development and Social Change in the Himalayas: An Ethnographic Village Study Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Kerilyn Schewel
Published in Journal of Human Development and Capabilities: A Multi-Disciplinary Journal for People-Centered Development (Vol. 24, No. 2, 2023)
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Human Security in the Anthropocene: A New Base for Action Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Mario Biggeri, Heriberto Tapia
ABSTRACT The idea of “human security” is gaining a new round of attention in the academic and policy agenda, as a new era of global changes is affecting people’s core capabilities. In this Policy Forum the “human security lens” engages with human development and the capability approach. It presents different perspectives of genuine action-oriented human security, and it aims to provide valuable insights
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Inclusive Financial Development Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Georges Quist
Published in Journal of Human Development and Capabilities: A Multi-Disciplinary Journal for People-Centered Development (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Solidarity and Human Insecurity: Interpreting and Extending the HDRO’s 2022 Special Report on Human Security Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-01-21 Des Gasper, Oscar A. Gómez
ABSTRACT The 2022 UNDP Special Report on human security marks an overdue return to this focus in Human Development Reports work. It adds solidarity to the established headline strategies for human security, namely protection and empowerment. While it does not theorise solidarity far, nor connect much to relevant literatures, nor explore implications in detail, it provides an opening of doors. We comment
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“Freedom from Want”: A Critical Reflection in the Face of the Anthropocene Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-01-13 Kehinde Balogun, Kariuki Weru, Xiaomeng Shen
ABSTRACT The 2022 Special Report on Human Security “calls for greater solidarity across borders and a new approach to development; one that allows people to live free from want, fear, anxiety and indignity”. This paper analyses the notion of “freedom from want” and argues that human “want”, understood from one cultural perspective/worldview, has created the market society with its GDP growth narrative