Poverty Revisited

The Capability Approach Operationalized in Mozambique
Nomos, 1. Edition 2013, 366 Pages
The product is part of the series Entwicklungstheorie und Entwicklungspolitik
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This book deploys Amartya Sen’s Capabilities Approach to re-evaluate and estimate multidimensional poverty in Mozambique. Sen’s conceptual notion of poverty as unfreedom is applied in three ways: firstly, to critique the official unidimensional consumption based poverty measure adopted in PARPA, Mozambique's Poverty Reduction Action Plan. Secondly, to assess whether sufficient “real opportunity freedoms” have been created for Mozambicans through PARPA’s policy design, by analysing key socio-political and economic indicators publicly available for the country; and thirdly, to re-estimate multidimensional poverty, by utilizing the Alkire-Foster Method of the Multidimensional Poverty Index, re-adopted and tailored for the Mozambican case.
The book demonstrates how Sen’s normative notion of poverty as unfreedom can be operationalised in Mozambique to generate a deeper understanding of the manifestations of poverty.
Bibliographical data
Bibliographical data
Edition 1
ISBN 978-3-8487-0060-8
Subtitle The Capability Approach Operationalized in Mozambique
Publication Date Feb 21, 2013
Year of Publication 2013
Publisher Nomos
Format Softcover
Language englisch
Pages 366
Medium Book
Product Type Scientific literature
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»detail- und materialreiche Studie«
Matthias Lemke, www.pw-portal.de September 2013
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