Poverty Revisited: The Capability Approach Operationalized in Mozambique - Brossura

Vollmer, Frank

 
9783848700608: Poverty Revisited: The Capability Approach Operationalized in Mozambique
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ISBN 10: 3848700603 ISBN 13: 9783848700608
Casa editrice: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Mbh & Co, 2013

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This book deploys philosopher and economist Amartya Sen's Capabilities Approach to re-evaluate and estimate multidimensional poverty in Mozambique. Sen's conceptual notion of poverty as "unfreedom" is applied in three ways. First, it critiques the official unidimensional, consumption-based, poverty measure adopted in PARPA, Mozambique's Poverty Reduction Action Plan. Additionally, it assesses whether sufficient "real opportunity freedoms" have been created for Mozambicans through PARPA's policy design, by analyzing key socio-political and economic indicators publicly available for the country. Finally, it re-estimates multidimensional poverty by utilizing the Alkire-Foster Method of the Multidimensional Poverty Index, re-adopted and tailored for the Mozambican case. The book demonstrates how Sen's normative notion of poverty as unfreedom can be operationalized in Mozambique to generate a deeper understanding of the manifestations of poverty. (Series: Development Theory and Development Policy / Entwicklungstheorie und Entwicklungspolitik - Vol. 12)

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Editore
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Mbh & Co
Data di pubblicazione
2013
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
3848700603
ISBN 13 
9783848700608
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
366
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