This volume aims to provide new ways of thinking about population trends in the 21st century. While the 20th century was the century of population growth, with the world`s population increasing from 1.6 to 6.1 billion, this book shows that the 21st centur
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- List of Figures, Tables and Boxes 10
- List of Contributors 12
- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations 16
- Introduction 18
- Part I: Concepts 24
- 1 A Normative Framework for Development 26
- Normative, positive and predictive 27
- Case studies 29
- Normative frameworks matter 35
- People first 36
- 2 The Human Development and Capability Approach 45
- Human development 47
- Going deeper: The capability approach 53
- 3 Ideas Related to Human Development 72
- Human development and market liberalism: Freedom compared 74
- How the idea of freedom is spread 77
- The basic needs approach 79
- Human rights 82
- Human security 85
- Other related ideas 89
- Part II: Topics 94
- 4 Economic Growth 96
- Growth in the history of economic thought 97
- Contemporary approaches to economic growth 106
- Economic growth as a means to human flourishing 113
- 5 Equality and Justice 124
- A brief description of the literature on theories of justice 125
- Rawls’ theory of justice in a nutshell 129
- Rawlsian justice versus the capability approach 132
- What do we need for a capability theory of justice? 135
- Gender justice and justice for marginalized groups 138
- From theories of justice to just practices and policies 139
- 6 Poverty and Inequality Measurement 144
- The importance and limitations of measurement 145
- Income-based measures of inequality 147
- Income poverty measurement: Two steps 155
- Measuring development and well-being: The Human Development Index (HDI) 161
- Multidimensional poverty measurement 165
- 7 Institutions, Markets and Economic Development 185
- Institutions in economic development 187
- Markets 194
- Institutions and markets in the human development approach 201
- 8 Democracy and Political Participation 208
- A mechanism for exercising agency in public sphere 209
- The value of democracy 214
- From democratic theory to practice 219
- Public reasoning 224
- Political participation at the global level 225
- 9 Education 230
- Human capital 231
- Human capital and the capability approaches compared 235
- Applying the capability approach to education 240
- 10 Health 251
- What is health? 252
- Conventional approaches to health 253
- Health within the human development and capability approach 257
- Health at the heart of inter-locking deprivations 261
- 11 Culture and Religion 269
- Part I: Culture 270
- Development perspectives 271
- Anthropological perspectives 273
- Human development perspectives 276
- Part II: Religion 284
- The Protestant ethic approach 284
- Religion as moral base 285
- Religion as human right 287
- Religion as dimension of well-being 288
- Faith-based organizations 289
- The possibility of reasoning 290
- Part III: Policy 296
- 12 Human Development Policy Analysis 298
- Main areas of public policy 299
- Policy in the private, non-profit and international sectors 309
- Politics and power 312
- Tools for policy analysis 314
- A human development perspective 317
- 13 Policy Case Studies 323
- A personal narrative of a woman’s life in Ghana 325
- Gender policy in Turkey 327
- Fiscal policy in Syria 335
- Security policy in Haiti 341
- Technical assistance policy in Afghanistan 347
- Post-conflict policy in Liberia 352
- Appendix 1 Teaching the human development and capability approach: Some pedagogical implications 357
- Appendix 2 Didactic Pictures 362
- Index 368
- A 368
- B 368
- C 368
- D 369
- E 370
- F 370
- G 371
- H 371
- I 372
- J 373
- K 373
- L 373
- M 373
- N 374
- O 374
- P 374
- Q 375
- R 375
- S 375
- T 376
- U 376
- V 377
- W 377
- Z 377
