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Even if they are not technically slaves, they are denied elementary freedoms and remain imprisoned in one way or another by economic poverty, social deprivation, political. By the winner of the 1988 nobel prize in economics, an essential and paradigmaltering framework for understanding economic developmentfor both rich and poorin the twentyfirst century. His writings on the capability approach are not only of theoretical interest on their own, but also provide concepts used in his work on social choice, freedoms, and development see the chapters by alkire, pettit, and roberts in this volume. Expansion of freedom is viewed, in this approach, both as the primary end and as the principal means of development p.
By the winner of the 1998 nobel prize in economics, an essential and paradigmaltering framework for understanding economic development for both rich and poor in the 21st century. Wealth or economic prosperity is the most common indicator of development. The removal of substantial unfreedoms, it is argued here, is constitutive of development. Sen showed his usual wisdom and astute judgement in keeping his argument carefully focused and, therefore, elegant and compelling. Pdf amartya kumar sen was born in bengal then british india in 1933 and grew up in. Pdf amartya sens development as freedom researchgate. Sen argues that expansion of freedom is both the primary end and the principal means of development. Development as freedom was published one year later and argues that. This treatise analyzes the nature of contemporary economic development from. Sen argues that development should be viewed as an effort to advance the real freedoms that individuals enjoy, rather than simply focusing on metrics such as gdp or incomepercapita.
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