... considers human capital as a factor of accumulation, and their accumulation positively affects growth. The second stream considers that the stock of human capital affects growth through innovation and adopting new technologies. Human capabilities Asia Economic growth The most debated question...

... one (Chakravarty, 2003 ; Despotis, 2005 ; Herrero et al., 2010 ; Lind, 2004 ; Noorbakhsh, 1998a ; Sagar and Najam, 1998). Development Human capabilities Human development Islamic human development The UN’s Human Development Index (HDI) emerged as a response...

... understand the cash transfer programs attainment and boundaries. Social implications The paper results highlight that the cash transfer programs, even being useful to improve people well-being, are not sufficient to promote human capabilities and are not truly undertaking the multidimensional...

... Human capabilities Over the centuries economists and social scientists have formalized different explanations to understand and predict human behaviours. The undisputed theoretical framework of mainstream economics assumes that the individuals are rational, atomised, and most importantly totally...

... of development as an expansion of capability. Welfare Human capabilities Marxism Human development Social justice Well-being There are several citations from Karl Marx’s works scattered across Amartya Sen’s writings. In this paper I am chiefly concerned with citations of Marx’s work...

.... Andre Golgher can be contacted at: agolgher@cedeplar.ufmg.br © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Human capabilities Developing countries Poverty Well-being Poverty measures that only consider income may be regarded as having a narrow perspective regarding deprivation...

..., k. The whole stock of composite capital is defined as: (Equation 8) Dr Soumyananda Dinda can be contacted at: sdinda2000@yahoo.co.in © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Social capital Human development Human capabilities Development Developing countries Malnutrition...

... of wellbeing studies and specifically in the use of the capability approach and its application in the Nigerian wellbeing context. Development Developing countries Wellbeing Human capabilities © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 The data for this study is from the Core Welfare...

... Limited 2013 Social welfare Well-being Social justice Human capabilities Liberty Republicanism Pettit's (1997b) neo-republican theory of liberty as nondomination has managed to reunite the pursuit of liberty and that of social justice. The union between liberty and social justice...

.... Peri Roberts can be contacted at: RobertsPM@cf.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Distributive justice Global justice Human capabilities Liberalism Justice Social justice Martha Nussbaum has, together with Amartya Sen, been a key player in the development...

... Human capabilities Political theory Political philosophy Well‐being Justice Chapter 8 of Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach (hereafter CC), is entitled “Capabilities and contemporary issues” (CC, pp. 143‐187). In this chapter Nussbaum comments on a number...