INTD 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Development As Freedom, Amartya Sen
8 Sep 2016
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The overarching goal: to achieve a positive and sustainable outcome for marginalized populations. Development as freedom" book by amartya sen visualizes human dimensions of the development issue We need to pay attention to other factors that cause poverty, human dimensions of poverty as it goes beyond the assumed convention of the gdp driven idea of poverty. Development matters because it deals with human lives, and deal with forms of freedom and justice in the world. Theory (macro): explaining variation in development outcomes, identifying causal relationships (examining variables that shape human conditions) Field research (micro): identifying actual local contexts, constraints, actors, power relations and local values that affect development outcomes. = labeling countries into two categories ( developing and. Normative dominance of gdp as the sole measurement of development: gdp does not necessarily re ect the actual conditions of human well being -joseph.
