Aparna Sen

By This quote Amartya Sen begins his book: The Idea of Justice: “In the little world in which children have their existence’, says Pip in Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations, ‘there is nothing so finely perceived and finely felt, as injustice.” (Sen, 2009: p: vii). In 1979 Amartya Sen presented the capability approach as an alternative and improvement on the social primary goods approach provided by John Rawls. And also to the preferences satisfaction and real income ideas as measures for well

various conflicting views about human rights, many of which have led to conflict’s in the past. American philosopher Martha Nussbaum detailed her capabilities approach on the theory of human rights in 2001 in “Capabilities as fundamental entitlements: Sen and Social Justice. Nussbaum’s central human capabilities have since been used in a wide variety of philosophy literature, notably in “Cosmopolitanism a philosophy for global ethics” by Stan Van Hooft. Nussbaum’s capabilities theory is centred around

out the character Mrs. Sen. She is the protagonist of the story, mistress of the University professor, a thirty year old home maker. She migrated from Calcutta to Boston with her husband mistress who teaches in the university of Boston. This not only the changes of location but also facing the problem of traditional and cultural conflict where they were migrated as well as they injured by socialy and psychologically causing a strong sense of lonliness and segregation. Mrs. sen coud not adopt by hostculturalwhere

authors argue the main issue that India is continuing to face are due to the lack of concern for citizens especially for the poor citizens and women. Dreze and Sen proceed into their work as they continue to portray the way in which the citizens of India were being oppressed by the new economic and political policies. One of the issues Dreze and Sen use as an example of how India rapid economic growth is problematic is the countries lack to foster participation for economic growth. The lack of inclusion

Basically Sen (1981), founded Entitlement theory on the assumption that the system under consideration is an economy with private ownership and exchange in form of trade, exchange between people and production and between man and nature. However, he also accepted social benefits as entitlement relations. The theory is useful to explain poverty effects for different people at household level with disaggregation of differences among the group in the population and people even at the same household

The Khmer Rouge Tribunal: Difficulties By the time the Khmer Rouge regime was ousted from power in 1979, the United Nations Human Rights Commission had already received a 995-page report of testimonies on massive human rights violations in Democratic Kampuchea . The gravity of the crimes perpetrated was so great that the need for a judicial instance to render justice seemed evident. According to Francis Deron, the proposal for a Khmer Rouge Tribunal had significant historical importance as it was

Inhalt 1. Capability Approach and Amartya Sen 1 1.1. Amartya Sen 1 1.2. Capability Approach 1 1.3. Functioning and Capability 2 1.3.1. Functioning 2 1.3.2. Capability 2 1.4. Capability Approach and Human Development 3 1.5. Human Development – a shift in development theory and policy 3   Capability Approach and Human Development Amartya Sen Amartya Sen is an Indian scholar and Nobel Prize laureate in economics. He grew up and witnessed the great famine in India, when 2-3 million people died.

til this day, still do not share their stories of what happened during this time because they are scared to be reminded of what was committed against them. That is why the country is still corrupt today because the two-decade old prime minister Hun Sen was an ex-Khmer Rouge Soldier. The Khmer Rouge group was created in the 1940s, but it was during the Vietnam War that the KR gained more power and became more prominent. The Khmer Rouge is an off-shot from the North Vietnamese government and essentially

comprehension of development is simple –social transformation promising better life, more opportunities with open arms. I associate better life with the quality of it, meaning even, how long we live may not “have a say” in this respect. As defined by Amartya Sen (1983), development involves centring on human “entitlements” perceived as rights and opportunities available rather than concentrating on economic indicators such as a personal income, GDP per head, total production and so on. He argues that development

Sen outlines two different approaches to development policies: the GNP/capital approach, which measures development through GNP and income levels, and the capability approach, which focuses on development through the expansion of freedoms.  Given that his book is titled “Development as Freedom”, he is clear proponent of the latter approach.  He offers a critique of the former, both factually and normatively. In his factual critique of policies that focus purely on GNP/human capital, he argues that