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to involvement in cognate activities with a parent, indicating a behavioural relationship between capabilities and …
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involvement in cognate activities with a parent, indicating a behavioural relationship between capabilities and activities which …
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Building on Rawls' theory of justice and Sen's theory of capabilities, I present an outline of social justice under … injustice, such as when persons with disability shoulder extra losses in capabilities, especially being without drinking water …
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It has often been claimed that it is impossible to measure human capabilities but within the methodological conventions … project which contributes to the operationalisation of the capabilities approach by devising over 60 capability indicators … respondents with low capabilities across the board, build models of experienced violence and subjective wellbeing as a function of …
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The paper is motivated by sustained interest in the capabilities approach to welfare economics combined with the … purported paucity of economic statistics that measure capabilities at the individual level. Specifically, it takes a focal … account of normatively desirable capabilities constitutive of a good life and operationalizes that account by means of a new …
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account for the possibility that some functionings may increase when a person's capabilities decrease, if substitution effects … impairment has widespread rather than concentrated impacts on capabilities and is associated with higher psychological costs.. We …
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Many scholars have argued that once "basic needs" have been met, higher income is no longer associated with higher in subjective well-being. We assess the validity of this claim in comparisons of both rich and poor countries, and also of rich and poor people within a country. Analyzing multiple...
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This paper examines how regionalization in the face of globalization has affected financial development in the context of banking system efficiency in Africa. Results which are robust to financial system efficiency and growth-led-finance nexus reveal that in the post-regionalization era: (1)...
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Interest in the emergence of a global middle class has resulted in a number of attempts to identify and enumerate who belongs to it . Current research provides wildly different estimates about the size and evolution of the global middle class because of a lack of consensus on appropriate...
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Long term trends in happiness and income are not related; short term fluctuations in happiness and income are positively associated. Evidence for this is found in time series data for developed countries, transition countries, and less developed countries, whether analyzed separately or pooled....
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