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Although empowerment is seen as intrinsically important and instrumentally valuable to escape poverty, there is very … little research on the empirical drivers of empowerment. Using custom-made household-level information and using advanced … drivers of empowerment. We also show that respondents’ confidence that they will be the most powerful agents in their lives is …
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Although empowerment is seen as intrinsically important and instrumentally valuable to escape poverty, there is very … little research on the empirical drivers of empowerment. Using custom-made household-level information and using advanced … drivers of empowerment. We also show that respondents' confidence that they will be the most powerful agents in their lives is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010359640
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Although empowerment is intrinsically important and instrumentally valuable to escape poverty, there is little research … empowerment at both communal and individual levels. Self-reported capabilities and communal empowerment strongly affect … people report higher individual empowerment. …
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of actual human behaviour, that is agency freedom, as well as the variety of human values. Despite of the recognition of …. This paper aims at overcoming such shortcoming through an assessment of the validity of an indicator measuring agency … patriarchal village in Uttar Pradesh, India, through a multi-topic survey instrument. Results indicate agency freedom differs …
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This chapter discusses the nature of external capabilities and how they bear upon social policy. Alternative definitions of external capabilities are compared and a simplified version suggested. It is argued that the issues surrounding external capabilities can be resolved only if the capability...
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that a stronger emphasis should be on assessing capabilities, autonomy, agency and responsibility. …
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that a stronger emphasis should be on assessing capabilities, autonomy, agency and responsibility. -- capability approach …
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that a stronger emphasis should be on assessing capabilities, autonomy, agency and responsibility …
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We argue that inter-country comparisons of income poverty based on poverty lines uniformly reflecting the costs of the basic requirements of human beings are superior to the existing money-metric approaches. In this exercise, we implement a uniform approach to poverty assessment based on basic...
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