Poverty. This paper examines both the divergence and convergence of the two views of
development in addressing issues such as, but not limited to, poverty, freedom, injustice …

Amartya Sen, in his most recent book Development as Freedom, argues that expansion of
human freedom should be viewed both as the primary end and the principle means of …

Human capabilities are partly created or undermined by development policies, markets, and
other social arrangements. Put differently, human freedom is partly 'human'-made. Sen's …

Amartya Kumar Sen was born in Bengal (then British India) in 1933 and grew up in Dhaka
(now the capital of Bangladesh). Following his Indian college-level education, Sen …

Human capabilities are partly created or undermined by development policies, markets, and
other social arrangements. Put differently, human freedom is partly “human”-made. Sen's …

The field of development studies owes a great debt to Amartya Sen. This paper reviews the
strengths and weaknesses of Sen's account of 'development as freedom'. It considers how …

Understanding Poverty and Development This book seeks to provide interdisciplinary (nay,
rather multidisciplinary) perspectives on poverty and development. The Cambridge …

Amartya Sen has made deep and lasting contributions to the academic disciplines of
economics, philosophy, and the social sciences more broadly. He has engaged in policy …

Abstract Amartya Sen's 1998 Nobel Prize and his recent synthesis of his views in
Development as Freedom provide an opportunity to assess his intellectual contribution and …

Amartya Sen uses his 1999 work Development as Freedom to evaluate the processes and
outcomes of economic development. Having come to the conclusion that development is …