The reasoning agent: agency in the capability approach and some implications for development research and practice
Amartya Sen’s capability approach (CA) is a freedom-centered and agency-oriented framework to the assessment of individual and social states. Indeed, it regards agency as having intrinsic, instrumental, and constructive importance. Thus, there is a growing literature exploring how to empirically cap...
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Language: | English |
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Universidad de Zaragoza
2020-11-01
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Series: | Revista Iberoamericana de Estudios de Desarrollo |
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Online Access: | http://ried.unizar.es/index.php/revista/article/viewFile/491/pdf_1 |