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Choosing Dimensions: The Capability Approach and Multidimensional Poverty

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The Many Dimensions of Poverty

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There can be substantial debates on the particular functionings that should be included in the list of important achievements and the corresponding capabilities. This valuational issue is inescapable in an evaluative exercise of this kind, and one of the main merits of the approach is the need to address these judgmental questions in an explicit way, rather than hiding them in some implicit framework.2

I am grateful for the comments of Cesar Calvo, Séverine Deneulin, Ian Gough, Javier Iguiñez, Nanak Kakwani, Mark McGillivray, Xavier Ramos, Ingrid Robeyns, Jacques Silber, Frances Stewart, and the participants of the Brasilia Conference in August 2005 on this paper or an earlier version of it, and to Afsan Bhadelia for research assistance; errors remain my own.

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  3. Bar-Ilan University, Israel

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Alkire, S. (2013). Choosing Dimensions: The Capability Approach and Multidimensional Poverty. In: Kakwani, N., Silber, J. (eds) The Many Dimensions of Poverty. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230592407_6

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