Journal of Human Development and Capabilities

2000 - 2025

Current editor(s): Kathryn Rosenblum

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Volume 26, issue 3, 2025

Correction pp. i-i

The Editors

Correction pp. ii-ii

The Editors

Recognising the Right to Care as a Foundation for Human Flourishing: Agroecological Insights on a Critical Development Issue pp. 333-343

Joanna Bourke Martignoni and Larissa da Silva Araujo

Anthropological Foundations of Kant’s and Sen’s Models of Social Rationality pp. 344-363

Alexey Salikov and Alexey Zhavoronkov

Weaving Heritage: The Narrative Capabilities and Herstories of Tonga Women pp. 364-386

Kurauone Masungo, F. Melis Cin, Faith Mkwananzi, Tendayi Marovah and Ashley Gunter

Can Capability-based Education and Social Policy Help Resolve the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Gender Paradox? A Case Study of Tunisia pp. 387-412

Pınar Çuhadar, Yusuke Kawamura and Rana Jawad

A Comparative Analysis of Disability Policies in Aotearoa New Zealand and the United Kingdom Through the Lens of the Capability Approach pp. 413-432

Sarah Albom and Jesse Hession Grayman

Exploring Political Ecology: Issues, Problems, and Solutions to the Climate Change Crisis pp. 433-434

Historis Soterman Halawa and Irvan Renaldi

Widening university access and participation in the Global South: using the Zambian context to inform other developing countries pp. 435-436

Patience Mukwambo

Transforming development in education: from coloniality to rethinking, reframing and reimagining possibilities pp. 436-438

Arif Hermawan, Libra Dui Putra and Arini Evadillah

Navigating AI with a Human Development Compass – Shaping Tomorrow’s Capabilities pp. 439-448

Christina Lengfelder, Heriberto Tapia and Mario Biggeri

Agency and the Role of International Regulation: Reconciling AI Technologies and Human Development pp. 449-460

Andrea Simoncini and Mario Biggeri

AI: Challenges for Democracy and Some Policy Solutions pp. 461-470

Paul Anand

Artificial Intelligence in Adaptive Social Protection: Expanding Human Capabilities for Climate Resilience pp. 471-481

Stiene Praet, Míriam Carrera Manzano, Julia Karpati and Chris De Neubourg

AI Can Revolutionise Education but Technology Is Not Enough: Human Development Meets Cultural Evolution pp. 482-492

Michael Muthukrishna, Jiner Dai, Diana Panizo Madrid, Riya Sabherwal, Karlijn Vanoppen and Hanying Yao

Protecting the Developing Mind in a Digital Age: A Global Policy Imperative pp. 493-504

Tara C. Thiagarajan, Jennifer Jane Newson and Shailender Swaminathan

Imagining the Future of the Dairy Industry: A Participatory Human-Centred Approach to Policy Making for Rural Communities in Kenya pp. 505-516

Caroline Kuhn, Mary Warui, Domini Kimani and Fisayo Oyewale

Volume 26, issue 2, 2025

Correction pp. I-I

The Editors

Why Economic Inequality Should be Central to Strategies for the Future pp. 161-176

Ingrid Robeyns

Innovation and Well-Being in Indigenous Entrepreneurship in Indonesia: A Capability Approach pp. 177-198

Medina Savira, Fikri Zul Fahmi and Adiwan Fahlan Aritenang

The Role of Business Training in Improving Digital Financial Literacy: Evidence from a Field Experiment for Subsistence Women Entrepreneurs pp. 199-209

Ashish Desai, Rudra Sensarma and Ashok Thomas

Activating Aspirations: Fostering Creative and Soft Skills for Rural NEETS in Central Portugal pp. 210-227

Ana Sofia Ribeiro, Isabel Roque and João Carlos Sousa

Digital and Educational Capabilities in the Post-Pandemic Era: Implications from Primary School Children’s Digital Practices during COVID-19 Lockdown pp. 228-254

Mitsuko Matsumoto

Towards Independence: The Development of Children’s Capability to Have a Voice in Their Healthcare pp. 255-275

Clare Davies, Donna Waters and Jennifer Fraser

Towards Person-Centred Care: Using the Capability Approach Together with the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health pp. 276-284

Mario Biggeri, Sophie Mitra and Sabina van der Veen

Building Bridges: Self-Perceived Functioning in Care Settings to Enhance Human Agency and Flourishing pp. 285-294

Sabina van der Veen and Marijn Aalders

Bridging the Disability Gap in Employment: Insights from an Employability Assessment Tool based on the ICF and the Capability Approach pp. 295-305

Caterina Arciprete and Federico Ciani

A Child-Centred Care Approach to the Learning Process: Lessons Learned from a Participatory Intervention in Primary Schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan pp. 306-315

Parul Bakhshi, Steve Taff and Jean-Francois Trani

Agency, the Capability Approach, and the ICF at the End-of-Life pp. 316-325

Christopher A. Riddle

The Role of Neoliberalism in the Marketisation of Higher Education pp. 326-327

Jandhyala B. G. Tilak

Cobalt Red: how the blood of the Congo powers our lives pp. 327-329

Sarah Katz-Lavigne and Espérant Mwishamali Lukobo

Post-conflict participatory arts: socially engaged development pp. 329-331

Yovita Aryani

Amartya Sen pp. 331-332

Candice Bailey

Volume 26, issue 1, 2025

Halfway There, Long Way to Go: The Role of People’s Agency in the Final Years of the Sustainable Development Goals pp. 1-8

M Asadullah, Ann Elizabeth Mitchell, Giulia Greco, Sophie Mitra, Mario Biggeri, Sridhar Venkatapuram, Alejandra Boni and Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti

Tracking SDG Achievements in the Age of Polycrisis pp. 9-32

Theresa Beltramo, Giacomo De Giorgi and Ibrahima Sarr

Human Development, Productivity, and Economic Growth pp. 33-58

Luis Varona and Jorge R. Gonzales

First Rule: Keep Pedalling. Co-Theorising with Food-Delivery Workers How to Make Digital Platforms Capability-Enhancing pp. 59-86

Pietro Ghirlanda

A Capability Indicator for Family Farms in the Global North – Concept and Test from Switzerland pp. 87-107

Stefan Mann and Manika Rödiger

“It's not that we Feel Incompetent, We Simply Lack the Institutional Solutions” Applying a Collective Capabilities Perspective to Voluntary Organisations in the Homelessness Field pp. 108-128

Harm Deleu, Sylvie Van Dam and Mieke Schrooten

Capability Approach Lens to Public-space Sexual Harassment of Women: Evidence from India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan pp. 129-153

Günseli Berik, Haimanti Bhattacharya, Tejinder Pal Singh, Aashima Sinha, Jacqueline Strenio, Sharin Shajahan Naomi, Sameen Zafar and Sharon Talboys

Southern Theories: Contemporary and Future Challenges pp. 154-155

Hind Elhinnawy

Revitalising Indian Agriculture and Boosting Farmer Incomes pp. 155-157

Eliaza Mkuna

Reparative Futures and Transformative Learning Spaces pp. 157-159

Su-Ming Khoo

Volume 25, issue 4, 2024

Capability to Aspire and Transformative Institutions: An Introduction pp. 509-517

Jean-Michel Bonvin and Bénédicte Zimmermann

The Capability to Aspire: An Agentive Model pp. 518-536

Bénédicte Zimmermann

Accounting for the Obstructive Activity of Experience: Aspiring, Projecting and Agency Development in a Context of Adversity pp. 537-555

Evelyne Baillergeau

Putting Appadurai's “Capacity to Aspire” and Sen's Capability Approach into Dialogue pp. 556-574

Ortrud Leßmann

Transforming Social Policies and Institutions in a Capability Perspective: Agency, Voice and the Capability to Aspire pp. 575-594

Jean-Michel Bonvin and Francesco Laruffa

A Reparative Lens for Exploring Youth Aspirations in South African Universities pp. 595-615

Melanie Walker

Transformative Institutions and Capabilities to Aspire in the Context of Radical Uncertainty: Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic pp. 616-635

Lavinia Bifulco

Nurturing the Capabilities to Aspire, Voice and Realise Aspirations: A Theoretical Analysis of the Transformative Potential of the National Health Service in England pp. 636-657

Caroline Sarojini Hart

Aspiration and Capability to Aspire: How Do French Institutions Affect Socio-Occupational Groups? pp. 658-680

Camille Stephanus and Josiane Vero

The Capability to Aspire and Realise Aspirations After Exiting Long-lasting Undocumentedness pp. 681-703

Liala Consoli

Volume 25, issue 3, 2024

How is the Capability Approach Applied to Assess Well-being Impacts? A Systematic Review pp. 367-399

Livia Bartolomei, Genowefa Blundo-Canto and Pasquale De Muro

Future-oriented Codesign Workshops as a Method of Empowering Citizens in Urban Infrastructure Development: A Capabilitarian Analysis pp. 400-425

Chiara Gasperoni, Camille-Charlotte Gilbert-Lapointe, Lya Porto, Franck Scherrer and Rafael Ziegler

Relational Empowerment and Ethnic Minority Women in Vietnam: How Do Household and Community Relations Matter? pp. 426-453

Joan DeJaeghere, Hue Le, Phuong Luong, Nga Thi Hang Ngo, Thanh Thi Vu, Nancy Pellowski Wiger and Jongwook Lee

The Capabilities Divide: ICT Adoption and Use among Bedouin in Israel pp. 454-472

Avi Marciano, Amit M. Schejter and Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar

The Construction of a Human Development Index at the Household Level and the Measurement of Human Development Disparities in Punjab (Pakistan) pp. 473-498

Tanveer Ahmed Naveed and David Gordon

How Economic Sanctions Affect Human Development: Evidence and Policy Implications pp. 499-504

Francisco Rodríguez

The right to higher education: a political theory pp. 505-506

Jandhyala B G Tilak

Implementing Inequality: The Invisible Labour of International Development pp. 506-508

Saleh Ahmed

Volume 25, issue 2, 2024

Message from the Editor pp. 205-205

Alejandra Boni Aristizábal

How Institutional Economics May Support the Analysis of Individual and Collective Capabilities pp. 206-231

Irene van Staveren

Measuring Housing Inequality with the Value of Freedom in the Capability Approach: Proposal and Demonstration pp. 232-256

Boram Kimhur

Operationalising the Capability Approach for Healthy Child Growth via a Participatory Method: An Illustrative Case in Haor Areas of Bangladesh pp. 257-280

Barnali Chakraborty, Shrinivas Darak and Haisma Hinke

Women and Invisible Boundaries: A Case of Slippage in Sanitation in Two Gram Panchayats, Shravasti, UP, India pp. 281-304

Kopal Khare and Lavanya Suresh

The Triple Day Thesis Versus Neoclassical Models of Labour Supply: Alternative Perspectives and Policies pp. 305-326

Tracey Freiberg, Deon Frederick Gibson and Elaine Agyemang Tontoh

Measuring the Development Progress of Least Developed Countries: In the Context of World Development pp. 327-357

Henry H. Bi

Artificial Intelligence, Human Development and Impact pp. 358-361

Paul Anand

Democratising Participatory Research: Pathways to Social Justice from the South pp. 362-363

César Osorio Sánchez

Hijacked: how neoliberalism turned the work ethic against workers and how workers can take it back pp. 363-365

Rafael Ziegler

Volume 25, issue 1, 2024

Repair in Education Spaces pp. 1-20

Melanie Walker

Measurement Is Not Everything, But It Does Make a Difference pp. 21-41

S. Subramanian

Amartya Sen, Karl Polanyi, and Universal Basic Income pp. 42-60

Oleksandr Svitych

Affiliation as Solidarity: Perspective of Vulnerable Groups pp. 61-86

Ana Petek, Ana Gavran Miloš and Nebojša Zelič

Labour Law, Employees’ Capability for Voice, and Wellbeing: A Framework for Evaluation pp. 87-109

Cherise Regier

Realising Capabilities for Street Young People in Harare, Zimbabwe: A New Approach to Social Protection pp. 110-130

Witness Chikoko, Lorraine van Blerk, Janine Hunter and Wayne Shand

The Capability Approach, Pedagogic Rights and Course Design: Developing Autonomy and Reflection through Student-Led, Individually Created Courses pp. 131-150

Rowan Murray

Using Alienation to Understand the Link Between Work and Capabilities pp. 151-169

Simantini Mukhopadhyay

A Minimal Capabilities-Based Account of Loss and Damage pp. 170-193

Laura García-Portela

Response to the 2023 Human Security Policy Forum pp. 194-203

Brendan M. Howe