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{"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}

{"title":"Realising Capabilities for Street Young People in Harare, Zimbabwe: A New Approach to Social Protection","authors":"Witness Chikoko, Lorraine van Blerk, Janine Hunter, Wayne Shand","doi":"10.1080/19452829.2023.2261868","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19452829.2023.2261868","url":null,"abstract":"Living in social contexts characterised by poverty and inequality, street young people have limited access to healthcare, water sanitation and hygiene services; exacerbating effects of ill health, infections, lack of nutrition and substance abuse that undermine their wellbeing. In Harare, Zimbabwe, they are also excluded from Social Protection Programmes (SPPs) which potentially assist other impoverished Zimbabweans, two-thirds of whom live below the poverty line (WFP 2019. Zimbabwe Annual Country Report 2019. World Food Programme). In this paper, we propose a reassessment of SPPs, in particular the Assisted Medical Treatment Order (AMTO), identifying barriers to access, and benefits for extending access to street young people . Drawing on secondary analysis of data from Growing up on the Streets, this paper re-conceptualises Ingrid Robeyns’ (2005. “The Capability Approach: A Theoretical Survey.” Journal of Human Development 6 (1): 93–117. https://doi.org/10.1080/146498805200034266) model of capabilities and applies it to the reversal of street youth exclusion and the application of government-targeted initiatives which have failed to reach those in the most vulnerable situations. In so doing, we propose an adapted model which recognises how the capabilities of street young people are enhanced when they are integrated into SPPs. This adapted model can be replicated and applied to relevant interventions for other groups of marginalised people in across contexts.","PeriodicalId":46538,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Human Development and Capabilities","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135193133","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":"Amartya Sen, Karl Polanyi, and Universal Basic Income","authors":"Oleksandr Svitych","doi":"10.1080/19452829.2023.2261858","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19452829.2023.2261858","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis paper develops a Polanyian capabilitarian framework to understand and justify the universal basic income. I combine Amartya Sen’s capabilities approach with Karl Polanyi’s substantive view of economy to mount a normative case for basic income. Using this approach, I also ground the basic income debate in a relational ontology, the idea that the self and society are mutually constituted. By doing so, I problematise hegemonic assumptions underlying much of the basic income discourse and call for ontological and epistemic diversity. The paper both provides a critique of individualist ontology and offers an affirmative modification centred on relationality and interdependence.KEYWORDS: Universal basic incomeAmartya SenKarl Polanyicapabilities approachembeddednessrelational ontology AcknowledgementsThis is a revised version of the paper presented on the 30th of September 2022 at the German Historical institute workshop “Beyond Work for Pay? Basic-Income Concepts in Global Debates on Automation, Poverty, and Unemployment (1920–2020)” in Washington, DC. I thank the organisers and participants for their insightful comments and feedback. I also thank two anonymous reviewers for the generous comments that helped refine my argument.Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 The normative literature on UBI is vast, the taxonomies are many, and the history of arguments is rich. Widerquist et al. (Citation2013) map out usefully the right-libertarian, left-libertarian, social egalitarian, republican, Marxist, communitarian, feminist, and post-productivist approaches. A comprehensive overview is also given by Bidadanure (Citation2019), Gentilini et al. (Citation2020), and Henderson (Citation2017), among others.2 This resonates with Anderson’s (Citation2000) argument that we need to focus on concrete freedoms that allow people to avoid oppression; hence universal basic income must be part of larger justification, ethically, and part of welfare package, politically.3 Lain (Citation2018) insists that there are shared affinities between the republican tradition and Karl Polanyi’s political economy (see the following sections on Polanyi). However, while he argues that both traditions share epistemological and methodological assumptions, the intersubjective character of Polanyi’s ontology is glossed over. I thank Bru Lain for highlighting the links between republicanism and Polanyi’s work during our personal communication.4 On intersubjective ontology of Amartya Sen, see also Yamamori (Citation2018).5 This call has been also voiced by scholars of post-development (Escobar Citation1995; Ferguson Citation1990; Teo Citation2010) and coloniality critique (Escobar Citation2018; Quijano Citation2000; Spivak Citation1988). To simplify, the former camp highlights how mainstream development theory and practice overlook diverse ontologies of the “non-developed” world; objectify those who need development; and produce ","PeriodicalId":46538,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Human Development and Capabilities","volume":"101 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135536259","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":"The Capability Approach, Pedagogic Rights and Course Design: Developing Autonomy and Reflection through Student-Led, Individually Created Courses","authors":"Rowan Murray","doi":"10.1080/19452829.2023.2261856","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19452829.2023.2261856","url":null,"abstract":"University education can provide more than discipline knowledge development. It can also develop lifelong skills such as autonomy, critical reflection, and independent thought. With its concern for the individual and development of the self as well as society, the Capability Approach offers a useful framework for evaluating individual development beyond disciplines. This paper aims to employ the Capability Approach to explore how student-led learning might lead to individual and social development. As there is a focus on courses and curricula, it employs the complementary concept of Pedagogic Rights. It presents findings from a small-scale qualitative research project, which included the perspectives of individuals who had recently completed self-designed, individually-created courses. Findings show that student-led courses align with Capability Approach values, providing a space for individual development and expansion of capabilities.","PeriodicalId":46538,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Human Development and Capabilities","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135536260","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":"A development economist in the United Nations: reasons for hope","authors":"Michael Askwith","doi":"10.1080/19452829.2023.2255014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19452829.2023.2255014","url":null,"abstract":"\"A development economist in the United Nations: reasons for hope.\" Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2","PeriodicalId":46538,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Human Development and Capabilities","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135785102","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":"Radical Housing: Designing Multigenerational and Co-Living Housing for All","authors":"Ravin Ponniah","doi":"10.1080/19452829.2023.2255016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19452829.2023.2255016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46538,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Human Development and Capabilities","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135981757","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":"A Common Good Approach to Development","authors":"Dirk Philipsen","doi":"10.1080/19452829.2023.2255015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19452829.2023.2255015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46538,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Human Development and Capabilities","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41313168","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}