Capability Approaches
1. Amartya Sen’s has given the theory of Capability Approach theory.
2. Amartya Sen’s capability theory approach is a theoretical framework that involves two core normative claims.
He says that No freedom no development
•Freedom to achieve
•Capability Deprivation
3. Capability in this sense is the “inner strength” of an individual that enables converting commodities or characteristics into resources which are useful to maintain some form of living standard or quality of life.
The measurement of this abstract concept has.
Deprivation indicated are
•Lack of education
•Lack of financial resources
•Ignorance
•Gender Inequality
•inequality
On the say that what is freedom is means to achieve development
•Good Healthcare
•Good Education
•Right to decent /Right to Dialogue
•Economic Market
•Equality between cast ,class, gender
•Social Disparities
•Lack of facilities
•Sen’s capability approach highlighted some issues
1.Individuals can have different abilities to change similar resources into valuable functioning’s.
2.Individuals can internalize the deprivation in order to stop desiring, what they can never achieve.
3. Individuals may or may not take up the option
4.Every individual’s reality is complex and multi-dimensional .
•Application
Currently there are Eight major types of capability approach applications:
1. Assessment of Human Development in a Country
2. Identification of poor people in a developing economy.
3.Assessment of Poverty and Well-being in advanced economies
4.Deprivation-analysis of PWDs in a Society
5. Gender-inequality Assessment
6. Public Policy Analysis
7. Critiques of Social Practices, Norms and Discourse
8.Use of Capabilities and Functioning as a concept in a non-normative research
framework.
•Conclusion
The capabilities approach is defined by its choice of focus on the moral significance of individuals’ ability to achieve the kind of life they have reason to value.
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