One of the most significant theoretical contributions to welfare analysis across a range of disciplines has been the development of the capabilities framework by Sen and others. Motivated by the claim that freedom should play a key role in social evaluation, the capabilities framework suggests...

Based on Africa evidence, the paper discusses the problem of achieving redistributive health care in conditions of low incomes and inequality.

This paper argues that caring for children has significant effects on economic processes, both through the time spent on it by parents and the contribution it makes to the reproduction of the economy. However, conventional economic models based on rational choice are inappropriate for analysing...

This paper investigates the ways in which the distribution of power and well-being within couple households is gendered in the sense of having gendered determinants, from inside the household, rather than just gendered outcomes. We model such households, as Sen (1990) suggests, as sites of...

The traditional economic model argues that risk of detection and severity of penalty are the most important constraints of income tax evasion. However, it is difficult for the tax authorities to trace unreported 'cash in hand' payments. Almost all sole traders have opportunities for such...

This empirical paper investigates the impact of different sources of increasing returns on firm innovative behaviour in two regions of the UK in the period of the 1990s when the new economy is believed to have emerged. We pay particular attention to the impact of the intermediation in the form...

It has often been claimed that it is impossible to measure human capabilities but within the methodological conventions of household survey design, we show that some non- financial capability indicators do already exist and we demonstrate how similar indicators, covering a wide range of life...