Poverty Revisited: The Capability Approach Operationalized in Mozambique (Development Theory and Development Policy / Entwicklungstheorie Und Entwicklungspolitik) - Softcover

Vollmer, Frank

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3848700603 ISBN 13: 9783848700608

Publisher: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Mbh & Co, 2013

Synopsis

This book deploys philosopher and economist 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. First, it critiques the official unidimensional, consumption-based, poverty measure adopted in PARPA, Mozambique's Poverty Reduction Action Plan. Additionally, it assesses whether sufficient "real opportunity freedoms" have been created for Mozambicans through PARPA's policy design, by analyzing key socio-political and economic indicators publicly available for the country. Finally, it re-estimates 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 operationalized in Mozambique to generate a deeper understanding of the manifestations of poverty. (Series: Development Theory and Development Policy / Entwicklungstheorie und Entwicklungspolitik - Vol. 12)

Edition details

• Publisher: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Mbh & Co
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3848700603
• ISBN 13: 9783848700608
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 366