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Amartya Sen was the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics. [1] Development as Freedom was published one year later and argues that development entails a set of linked freedoms: political freedoms and transparency in relations between people; freedom of opportunity, including freedom to access credit; and
A 56-minute documentary named Amartya Sen: A Life Re-examined directed by Suman Ghosh details his life and work. [62] [63] A documentary about Amartya Sen, titled The Argumentative Indian (the title of one of Sen's own books [64]), was released in 2017. [65] A 2001 portrait of Sen by Annabel Cullen is in Trinity College's collection. [66]
Reprinted in Sen, Amartya (2004), "Development as capability expansion", in Kumar, A. K. Shiva; Fukuda-Parr, Sakiko (eds.), Readings in human development: concepts, measures and policies for a development paradigm, New Delhi New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780195670523
Amartya Sen and Mahbub ul Haq are the most well-known human development theorists. The work of Sen is focused on capabilities: what people can do and be. It is these capabilities, rather than the income or goods that they receive (as in the Basic Needs approach), that determine their well-being.
Amartya Sen was the Economic Adviser and the French Economist Jean-Paul Fitoussi was the Coordinator. The Final Report was published in September 2009. [3] An additional contribution from the aforementioned three main organizers which specifically addresses the Financial Crisis (as of 2007) is also available. [4]
The Human Development Report (HDR) is an annual Human Development Index report published by the Human Development Report Office of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). [1] The first HDR was launched in 1990 by the Pakistani economist Mahbub ul Haq and Indian Nobel laureate Amartya Sen. Since then reports have been released most ...
Amartya Sen applauds Nussbaum for “A remarkably lucid and scintillating account of the human development approach seen from the perspective of one of its major architects.” [13] Professors have reacted to Nussbaum's work: “The very best way to be introduced to the capability approach to international development.
The index is based on the human development approach, developed by Mahbub ul-Haq, anchored in Amartya Sen's work on human capabilities, and often framed in terms of whether people are able to "be" and "do" desirable things in life. Examples include — being: well-fed, sheltered, and healthy; doing: work, education, voting, participating in ...