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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Main Author: Pablo Garcés
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de Zaragoza 2020-11-01
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