Description
Book SynopsisAmong several contesting views about the purpose of development and how progress should be evaluated, human rights and capabilities (or human development) stand out as two approaches that are concerned first and foremost with the well-being of individuals, their freedom, dignity and empowerment. These two approaches contrast sharply with the dominant development frameworks that emphasize economic growth as the essential objective. Though human rights and capabilities share these common commitment to human priorities, they are distinct concepts and fields that have developed separately. The aim of this volume is to explore the relationship between them in order to enhance the understanding of both as theoretical paradigms, as public policy frameworks and as approaches to development.
The book includes contributions from some of the leading scholars in the two fields of capabilities approach and human rights. It covers the essential aspects of this relationship: addressin
Table of Contents
Foreword Amartya Sen Chapter 1. Introduction: The Capability approach and human rights Polly Vizard, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Diane Elson Chapter 2. Capabilities, Entitlements, Rights: Supplementation and Critique Martha Nussbaum Chapter 3. Responsible Pluralism, Capabilities and Human Rights Jay Drydyck Chapter 4. Economics and Human Rights: A Non-Conversation Sanjay Reddy Chapter 5. The Metrics of Human Rights:Complementarities of the Human Development and Capabilities Approach Sakiko Fukuda-Parr Chapter 6. ‘Operationalising’ the capability approach as a basis for equality and human rights monitoring in 21st century Britain Tania Burchardt and Polly Vizard Chapter 7. Millennium Development Goals and human rights: Far away, so close? Simone Cecchini and Francesco Notti Chapter 8. Right to information and local governance institutions: An exploration P.B. Anand Chapter 9. Financial Regulation, Capabilities and human Rights in the US Financial Crisis: the Case of Housing Radhika Balakrishnan, Diane Elson, and James Heintz Chapter 10. Towards a Human Rights Accountability Index Philip Alston Chapter 11. Poverty and Human Rights: Building on the Capability Approach Siddiqur Rahman Osmani
