Poverty Revisited: The Capability Approach Operationalized in Mozambique

Dr. Frank Vollmer

doi:10.5771/9783845244952

Summary

Was ist Armut? Dieser Frage widmet sich dieses Buch und diskutiert eingehend Amartya Sen’s Theorie. Seinem „Befähigungsansatz“ (Capability Approach) folgend, wird Armut in Mosambik empirisch re-evaluiert und multidimensional berechnet. Die Studie kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass Mosambikaner/innen „Befähigungen“ in den vier Kerndimensionen von Armut fehlen (in den politischen, humanen, sozialen und ökonomischen Domänen). Folglich leben weit mehr Menschen in multidimensionaler „Befähigungs-Armut“ als die offizielle verbrauchbasierte Armutsmessung in Mosambik suggeriert.

Der Autor zeigt auf, wie Sen’s normativer Armutsansatz am Beispiel Mosambiks empirisch operationalisiert werden kann, um eine grundlegendere Erkenntnis über die Wesensmerkmale der Armut zu erreichen.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2013
Copyright year: 2013
ISBN-Print: 978-3-8487-0060-8
ISBN-Online: 978-3-8452-4495-2
Publisher: Nomos, Baden-Baden
Series: Entwicklungstheorie und Entwicklungspolitik
Volume: 12
Language: English
Pages: 366
Product type: Book Titles

Titelei No access Pages 2 - 6 Frank Vollmer
Acknowledgments No access Pages 7 - 8 Frank Vollmer
Contents No access Pages 9 - 14 Frank Vollmer
Abbreviations No access Pages 15 - 18 Frank Vollmer
1. Research Rationale: Poverty and Philosophy No access Pages 19 - 23 Frank Vollmer
2. Methodology No access Pages 23 - 24 Frank Vollmer
3. Motivation No access Pages 24 - 24 Frank Vollmer
4. Personal background No access Pages 24 - 26 Frank Vollmer
5. Personal preference formation and Amartya Sen’s CA: meeting in the “grey zone” No access Pages 26 - 27 Frank Vollmer
6. Objectives No access Pages 27 - 29 Frank Vollmer
7. Findings, Advocacy and Outputs No access Pages 29 - 31 Frank Vollmer
8. State of the Arts/ Literature Review No access Pages 31 - 31 Frank Vollmer
9. Structure No access Pages 31 - 33 Frank Vollmer
10. Sources No access Pages 33 - 34 Frank Vollmer
11. Ethics of Poverty Research No access Pages 34 - 34 Frank Vollmer
Conceptualising Multidimensional Poverty – Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach Examined No access Pages 35 - 36 Frank Vollmer
1. The linear interlinkage between poverty definition, conceptualisation and categorisation No access Pages 37 - 41 Frank Vollmer
2. Looking for an inter-subjective common ground No access Pages 41 - 43 Frank Vollmer
3. Leaving the common ground No access Pages 43 - 44 Frank Vollmer
4. Recapitulation and outlook No access Pages 44 - 45 Frank Vollmer
1. The concept of poverty and the consequences for its understanding: a narrative No access Pages 46 - 50 Frank Vollmer
2. Categorisations No access Pages 50 - 51 Frank Vollmer
3. Further concept: Adverse incorporation No access Pages 51 - 52 Frank Vollmer
4. Distinguishing evaluative criteria No access Pages 52 - 53 Frank Vollmer
5. Recapitulation and outlook No access Pages 53 - 55 Frank Vollmer
1. Human Development No access Pages 56 - 60 Frank Vollmer
2. 1. The CA – Just about development? No access Pages 60 - 63 Frank Vollmer
  2. Traditional evaluative frameworks of poverty and social arrangements – a critique No access Pages 63 - 64 Frank Vollmer
  3. CA – tracing the roots No access Pages 64 - 67 Frank Vollmer
  4. Locating the CA into a school of thought No access Pages 67 - 68 Frank Vollmer
  5. In a nutshell No access Pages 68 - 69 Frank Vollmer
3. 1. Functioning No access Pages 69 - 70 Frank Vollmer
  2. Capability No access Pages 70 - 70 Frank Vollmer
  3. Agency No access Pages 70 - 71 Frank Vollmer
  4. Freedom No access Pages 71 - 71 Frank Vollmer
  5. Real opportunities – Commodities and beyond No access Pages 71 - 74 Frank Vollmer
  6. A closer look at functionings and capabilities No access Pages 74 - 75 Frank Vollmer
  7. An illustrative example No access Pages 75 - 76 Frank Vollmer
4. 1. Freedom – negative vis-à-vis positive liberty No access Pages 76 - 77 Frank Vollmer
  2. Freedom as a universal human right No access Pages 77 - 78 Frank Vollmer
  3. Freedom – Constitutive and Instrumental Roles No access Pages 78 - 82 Frank Vollmer
  4. Interconnections and complementarity of instrumental freedoms No access Pages 82 - 84 Frank Vollmer
5. What kind of Capabilities? No access Pages 84 - 87 Frank Vollmer
6. A closer look at agency and well-being, freedom and achievements No access Pages 87 - 90 Frank Vollmer
7. A closer look at evaluations, measurements and policy focus No access Pages 90 - 92 Frank Vollmer
8. Policy focus: process freedom or agency freedom? No access Pages 92 - 94 Frank Vollmer
9. Deliberate Breadth No access Pages 94 - 95 Frank Vollmer
10. Individual Diversity and Heterogeneity No access Pages 95 - 96 Frank Vollmer
11. The core principles No access Pages 96 - 97 Frank Vollmer
12. The CA – Misunderstandings I No access Pages 97 - 99 Frank Vollmer
13. Misunderstandings II No access Pages 99 - 101 Frank Vollmer
14. Who are the actors involved in enhancing opportunity freedom? No access Pages 101 - 101 Frank Vollmer
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  1. Outlook No access Frank Vollmer
1. A question of responsibility – is the CA an opportunity or an outcome-based theory? No access Pages 105 - 107 Frank Vollmer
2. Welfare, preferences, respect, social status, fairness: an ethical relevant discussion? An introspective account No access Pages 107 - 110 Frank Vollmer
3. Sen’s CA: A Theory of Justice? No access Pages 110 - 111 Frank Vollmer
4. Preference formation and choices being made: a need for analysis? No access Pages 111 - 113 Frank Vollmer
5. Individualism No access Pages 113 - 115 Frank Vollmer
6. The adaptation discourse No access Pages 115 - 116 Frank Vollmer
7. Old wine in new bottles? No access Pages 116 - 118 Frank Vollmer
8. One size fits all? No access Pages 118 - 118 Frank Vollmer
9. 1. Liberalism and agency freedom No access Pages 118 - 123 Frank Vollmer
  2. Looking at Sen and Nussbaum: tracing the roots No access Pages 123 - 125 Frank Vollmer
  3. Human nature No access Pages 125 - 127 Frank Vollmer
  4. Control, Nussbaum’s list as an entity, benevolence, one-size-fits-all – critique continued No access Pages 127 - 129 Frank Vollmer
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    1. Nussbaum’s ontology – internalist (Aristotelian) essentialism and internal realism No access Frank Vollmer
    2. Nussbaum’s epistemology – introspection and field work No access Frank Vollmer
    3. Proposing an epistemological alternative – Clark’s empirical philosophy No access Frank Vollmer
    4. To the contrary – Sen’s ontology and epistemology No access Frank Vollmer
    5. Sen’s notion of objectivity – walking on a thin line No access Frank Vollmer
10. Recapitulation and outlook No access Pages 139 - 140 Frank Vollmer
1. The epistemological and ontological Q-squared debate No access Pages 141 - 145 Frank Vollmer
2. Q-squared research and a growing epistemic community No access Pages 145 - 146 Frank Vollmer
3. Quantitative economic reductionism: A retrospective (narrative) analysis No access Pages 146 - 149 Frank Vollmer
4. Understanding qualitative poverty research: A retrospective (narrative) analysis No access Pages 149 - 151 Frank Vollmer
5. Qual/ Quant: A Continuum with strengths and weaknesses No access Pages 151 - 154 Frank Vollmer
6. Last comment on “why”: multidimensionality and its place in the modern/ postmodern debate No access Pages 154 - 158 Frank Vollmer
7. 1. Self-contained or opportunistic study design No access Pages 158 - 160 Frank Vollmer
  2. Which mix? No access Pages 160 - 161 Frank Vollmer
  3. Timing of the mixed method No access Pages 161 - 162 Frank Vollmer
  4. Mixing possibilities No access Pages 162 - 163 Frank Vollmer
8. Recapitulation No access Pages 163 - 164 Frank Vollmer
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1. Recapitulation and Last remark No access Frank Vollmer
Recapitulation Part I No access Pages 172 - 176 Frank Vollmer
‘Capabilitizing’ the Poverty Challenge – The Case of Mozambique No access Pages 177 - 178 Frank Vollmer
1. 1. Socio-environmental particularities No access Pages 179 - 188 Frank Vollmer
  2. Ethnicity, religion, and languages No access Pages 188 - 189 Frank Vollmer
  3. Geography No access Pages 189 - 189 Frank Vollmer
2. Recapitulation and outlook No access Pages 189 - 189 Frank Vollmer
1. Introduction: Discrepancy unravelled No access Pages 190 - 192 Frank Vollmer
2. Poverty as a lack of consumption: Measuring around the problem No access Pages 192 - 193 Frank Vollmer
3. Applying the “Basic Needs Approach” to set poverty lines: Confusing caloric intake with nutrition No access Pages 193 - 196 Frank Vollmer
4. Main limitations of PARPA’s unidimensional measure: Disclosure vis-à-vis concealment No access Pages 196 - 198 Frank Vollmer
5. Recapitulation: Matching measurement with definition – A call for revision No access Pages 198 - 199 Frank Vollmer
1. 1. Employment and Income: sufficient to ensure a livelihood? No access Pages 200 - 207 Frank Vollmer
  2. Feminisation of ill-being No access Pages 207 - 208 Frank Vollmer
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    1. Mozambique’s governmental structure No access Frank Vollmer
    2. No market no demand? No access Frank Vollmer
    3. Value-Chain Support Needed No access Frank Vollmer
    4. A (neo-) Keynesian proposal No access Frank Vollmer
    5. The provision of credit: funding for investment needed No access Frank Vollmer
    6. Guarantees: Land tenure No access Frank Vollmer
    7. Visions from Europe – Plan España No access Frank Vollmer
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      1. Fiscal policies No access Frank Vollmer
      2. Rising tax/GDP ratios No access Frank Vollmer
      3. Trade and external indebtedness: balancing the capital with the current account No access Frank Vollmer
      4. Trade regime No access Frank Vollmer
      5. Exchange rate regime No access Frank Vollmer
      6. Monetary policy and inflation targeting No access Frank Vollmer
      7. Protective security – stabilization funds, international and domestic social safety nets No access Frank Vollmer
    9. Relatório de Avaliação do Impacto (RAI): PARPA II Impact evaluation No access Frank Vollmer
    10. Economic Poverty: a summary No access Frank Vollmer
2. 1. One party rule in a multi-party state No access Pages 257 - 261 Frank Vollmer
  2. Decentralisation No access Pages 261 - 262 Frank Vollmer
3. 1. Lack of transparency guarantees No access Pages 262 - 265 Frank Vollmer
  2. Social relations and networks No access Pages 265 - 266 Frank Vollmer
4. Human Poverty No access Pages 266 - 270 Frank Vollmer
5. The four functionings of value and their capabilities denial: some anecdotal evidence from interviews conducted No access Pages 270 - 277 Frank Vollmer
6. Recapitulation and outlook No access Pages 277 - 280 Frank Vollmer
1. Selection of dimensions, variables, poverty cutoffs and weights No access Pages 281 - 283 Frank Vollmer
2. Selection Process No access Pages 283 - 285 Frank Vollmer
3. Methodological Limitations No access Pages 285 - 288 Frank Vollmer
4. Ideal List of Mozambique’s poverty domains No access Pages 288 - 292 Frank Vollmer
5. Feasible List of Mozambique’s poverty domains No access Pages 292 - 298 Frank Vollmer
6. Recapitulation No access Pages 298 - 298 Frank Vollmer
1. Notation No access Pages 299 - 305 Frank Vollmer
2. Results No access Pages 305 - 311 Frank Vollmer
3. Recapitulation No access Pages 311 - 312 Frank Vollmer
General Conclusion No access Pages 313 - 316 Frank Vollmer
1. Internet Sources No access Pages 317 - 337 Frank Vollmer
2. 1. Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach No access Pages 337 - 338 Frank Vollmer
  2. Operationalization examples No access Pages 338 - 340 Frank Vollmer
Appendices No access Pages 341 - 366 Frank Vollmer