POLI 3424 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Capability Approach, Infant Mortality, Amartya Sen
11 Nov 2020
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Iowa has a lot of pot holes, but that doesn"t mean it"s a lds. Poor health (disease, life expectancy, infant mortality, etc. ) More than income difficulty realizing your ambition. Indicators - specific ways of measuring a concept. We want to be able to know how we are doing. Some things don"t really matter for development. Some things are qualitative instead of quantitative. There are some people who live worse than i do, but there are also those who live better. For some i am poor, for others not, but compared to my own former situation, i am a beggar. In this case, a snapshot doesn"t tell us very much. Hdr approach: motivationally committed to concentrating on what remains undone what demands most attention in the contemporary world. Looks at how we can make things better. These authors argue that the role of government is to enhance the ability of people to make choices for themselves.
