Essays about: "Amartya Sen concept of poverty"

Found 3 essays containing the words Amartya Sen concept of poverty.

  1. 1. “ESTAMOS ESQUECIDOS”A case study for capabilities in the perspective of small-scale vegetable producers in Southeastern Brazil

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Bruno de Paula; [2022]
    Keywords : Small-scale producers; rural poverty; wellbeing; collective action; peasantry; quality of life; capabilities; food security; food production; family farmers; São Paulo; Brazil;

    Abstract : Global food supply chains have drastically changed over the last decades. Whereas some international firms embedded in the international markets are on the cutting edge of food production processes and technology, small-scale producers do not always experience the same opportunity in accessing such global value chains. READ MORE

  3. 2. Inequality and Poverty Reduction. An analysis and comparison of World Bank projects implementing Microcredits and Conditional Cash Transfers in Bangladesh.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Sociologi; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Global Studies

    Author : Claudia Simone Mallschützke; [2015]
    Keywords : inequality; conditional cash transfers; microcredit; Bangladesh; World Bank; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT) and microcredits are popular within the development community as poverty reduction instruments. Amartya Sen has proposed a holistic approach to development, poverty and inequality that does not see an increase in income as the aim of development. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Concept of Human Development: A Comparative Study of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum

    University essay from Centrum för tillämpad etik

    Author : Christopher Ryan Maboloc; [2008]
    Keywords : Capability Approach; Amartya Sen; Martha Nussbaum; Human Development; HDI;

    Abstract : This thesis is an examination of the concept of human development and does a comparative study of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum. Sen rectifies the emphasis on income by welfare economics, and argues for the ‘equality of capability’; a goal that he says can be achieved by means of the intrinsic and instrumental role of democracy. READ MORE