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{"title":"A Minimal Capabilities-Based Account of Loss and Damage","authors":"Laura García-Portela","doi":"10.1080/19452829.2024.2305388","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19452829.2024.2305388","url":null,"abstract":"The topic of loss and damage has generated contentious debates in international policymaking and climate negotiations. Up until now, political agreements have been possible because of the use of am...","PeriodicalId":46538,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Human Development and Capabilities","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139514928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Response to the 2023 Human Security Policy Forum","authors":"Brendan M. Howe","doi":"10.1080/19452829.2024.2305391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19452829.2024.2305391","url":null,"abstract":"The February 2022 UNDP Special Report (SR) on Human Security, “New threats to human security in the Anthropocene: Demanding greater solidarity” marked a welcome return by the UN body to the field i...","PeriodicalId":46538,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Human Development and Capabilities","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139514677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Repair in Education Spaces","authors":"Melanie Walker","doi":"10.1080/19452829.2023.2297917","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19452829.2023.2297917","url":null,"abstract":"The paper discusses repair as valuable for thinking about and acting towards sustainable human development. Repair asks us to take account of intersections of past, present, and reimagined futures;...","PeriodicalId":46538,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Human Development and Capabilities","volume":"55 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139498168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Measurement Is Not Everything, But It Does Make a Difference","authors":"S. Subramanian","doi":"10.1080/19452829.2023.2295149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19452829.2023.2295149","url":null,"abstract":"With the help of the Human Development Index, Mahbub ul Haq demonstrated that by focusing attention away from an exclusive concern with income as the only dimension in which to assess well-being, m...","PeriodicalId":46538,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Human Development and Capabilities","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139373665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Affiliation as Solidarity: Perspective of Vulnerable Groups","authors":"Ana Petek, Ana Gavran Miloš, Nebojša Zelič","doi":"10.1080/19452829.2023.2283224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19452829.2023.2283224","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims to contribute to the understanding of affiliation by developing a contextually sensitive mid-level theory comprising specific elements, layers, and factors of affiliation. Vulnerabl...","PeriodicalId":46538,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Human Development and Capabilities","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138523795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Economic and Social Policies for Human Development","authors":"Deepak Nayyar, Rajeev Malhotra","doi":"10.1080/19452829.2023.2252645","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19452829.2023.2252645","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTEconomic and social policies of governments could improve or worsen the wellbeing of people, so that their impact on human development could be positive or negative. This article discusses the role, as well as the scope, of public policies for human development in the contemporary developing and industrialised worlds, buffeted by frequent global and local economic crises, including a health pandemic of unprecedented proportions, where mainstream economic policies have often been detrimental, rather than conducive, to advancing human wellbeing. The paper revisits the human development framework and anchors it in an interpretation of the capability approach that helps in delineating economic and social policy pathways to desirable outcomes. It argues that this is essential for an effective operationalisation of the approach to human development. Building on that, it explores the nature of economic and social policies that might constitute an appropriate policy-mix for advancing human development. In doing so, it recognises that, while human development problems in poor and rich countries are similar, the choices, sequencing and prioritisation of policies will inevitably be determined by the country-context and government-objectives. Given the context, it suggests that the framework of SDGs at the national level could enable a focus on human development objectives in the policy design and strategic response of countries.KEYWORDS: Human developmentEconomic policiesSocial policiesMacroeconomic policiesInequalitiesWellbeingSocial opportunitiesSocial protectionHeterodox policesSustainable development goals Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 On average, an individual from the top 10% of the global income distribution earns PPP USD 122,100 per year, whereas an individual from the poorest half of the global income distribution earns PPP USD 3,920 per year (World Inequality Report Citation2022).2 The gap between the average incomes of the richest 10% of countries and the average incomes of the poorest 50 percent of countries dropped from around 50x to a little less than 40x. At the same time, inequalities increased significantly within countries. The gap between the average incomes of the top 10% and the bottom 50% of individuals within countries has almost doubled, from 8.5x to 15x.3 On average, the poorest half of the population owns PPP USD 4, 100 and the top 10% USD 771,300.4 For a discussion on the coronavirus pandemic, and the response of governments, in global perspective, see Nayyar and Thakur (Citation2021). See also, Nayyar (Citation2020).5 A recent Oxfam report indicates that the richest 1% of the world accounted for nearly two-thirds of all new wealth worth US $42 trillion created since 2020. This is almost double the wealth of the bottom 99% of the world’s population. Just as striking, during the past decade, the richest 1% captured around half of all new wealth (Oxfam Citation2023","PeriodicalId":46538,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Human Development and Capabilities","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135800311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Economic Policies for Human Development: A Neglected Domain","authors":"Deepak Nayyar","doi":"10.1080/19452829.2023.2252646","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19452829.2023.2252646","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46538,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Human Development and Capabilities","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135803590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Labour Law, Employees’ Capability for Voice, and Wellbeing: A Framework for Evaluation","authors":"Cherise Regier","doi":"10.1080/19452829.2023.2266691","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19452829.2023.2266691","url":null,"abstract":"Labour power has significantly declined across affluent democracies in recent decades, resulting in a widening scale of power inequality within the contemporary employment relationship. Employee voice is a key component of labour power that represents a human capability according to Amartya Sen’s conceptualisation: a real freedom to achieve states of being that one has reason to value. Employees deficient in the capability for voice lack sufficient bargaining power to influence workplace decision-making, which threatens their wellbeing by increasing their risk of exposure to work-related stressors and limiting their opportunities to improve their welfare. In this article, employee voice legislation is argued to be a necessary social conversion factor of employees’ capability for voice that can promote further advantage. However, research assessing its effectiveness at enhancing wellbeing is greatly limited due to an over reliance on neoliberal and new institutional forms of economic analysis that reveal little about the quality of employees’ lives. A comprehensive framework for evaluation based on Sen’s capability approach is proposed that when operationalised for empirical analysis, can advance our understanding of employee wellbeing in the twenty-first century.","PeriodicalId":46538,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Human Development and Capabilities","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136013681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Message from the Editor","authors":"Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti","doi":"10.1080/19452829.2023.2262330","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19452829.2023.2262330","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46538,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Human Development and Capabilities","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135902676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Rethinking Development in Latin America","authors":"José Antonio Ocampo, Daniel Titelman","doi":"10.1080/19452829.2023.2264005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19452829.2023.2264005","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTLatin American countries face a crossroad that demands profound change in their development paradigm. In the last four decades economic growth, investment, and productivity have shown poor performance. This has made it impossible to break with the productive heterogeneity that characterises the region and its dependence on low value-added productive sectors and commodity-dependent export structures. Although there has been a positive advance in human development, high levels of inequality, poverty, social exclusion, and high labour market informality have been persistent in the countries of the region. Added to these structural problems is the need to face climate change, that has important distributive and social effects and requires a significant amount of investment in adaption and mitigation a will require a change in the development paradigm. A fiscal sustainability framework will be essential to ensure the viability of the public spending required to promote structural change. The framework should prioritise domestic resource mobilisation, through public revenues, which have historically been insufficient to meet the demands for public spending.KEYWORDS: Latin Americaeconomic growtheconomic structurefiscal conditionshuman and social developmentclimate change Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Non-metallic minerals, paper, chemicals, basic metals, and machinery and equipment, including transport equipment.2 See https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/GB.XPD.RSDV.GD.ZS.3 Also Venezuela until 2014, but there is no information on the inequality in that country after that year.Additional informationNotes on contributorsJosé Antonio OcampoJosé Antonio Ocampo is Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs, Member of the Committee on Global Thought, and co-President of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University. He has occupied numerous positions at the United Nations and his native Colombia, including UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and Minister of Finance and Public Credit on two occasions, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Director of the National Planning Office of Colombia, and Member of the Board of Directors of Banco de la República (Colombia’s central bank).Daniel TitelmanDaniel Titelman is Director of the Economic Development Division of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). He was Chief of the Financing for Development Division and coordinator of the Special Studies Unit of the Executive Secretary at ECLAC. He has also worked in issues related to financing and social security, particularly in health and pension reforms. He has participated in the elaboration of many institutional ECLAC reports on issues related to macroeconomics, financing for development and social pro","PeriodicalId":46538,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Human Development and Capabilities","volume":"154 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135901714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}