Table of Contents

1: INTRODUCTION: CAPABILITY AND VALUATION
2: POVERTY AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
3: RANGE INFORMATION AND PROCESS
4: PARTICIPATION AND CULTURE
5: BASIC NEEDS AND BASIC CAPABILITIES
6: ASSESSING CAPABILITY CHANGE
7: THREE CASE STUDIES

About the Author

Sabina Alkire is currently a researcher with the Global Equity Initiative, Harvard University. Previously she has worked for the Commission on Human Security, coordinated the culture-poverty learning and research initiative at the World Bank, and developed participatory impact assessment methodologies with Oxfam and the Asia Foundation in Pakistan.

Reviews

`"Valuing Freedoms is a major contribution to the further development and advancement of the capability approach. This book is very careful and accurate in its explanation of Sen's work...this book is essential reading for anyone who wants to take the capability approach forward, and it will certainly become a reference point for much future work in this area."'
Ingrid Robeyns, Economics and Philosophy, November 2003
`"Sabina Alkire has written an insightful, ambitous and stimulating book on Amartya Sen's capability approach."'
Bertil Tongodden, International Development Ethics Association
`"This is an ambitious and challenging book."'
Scott A. Anderson, Ethics, April 2003