Journal of Human Development and Capabilities

2000 - 2025

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Volume 22, issue 4, 2021

Capability and Oppression pp. 527-550

Jay Drydyk

Understanding a “Development Miracle”: Poverty Reduction and Human Development in Malaysia Since the 1970s pp. 551-576

M Asadullah, Norma Mansor and Antonio Savoia

Indigenous Peoples and Rights to Land and Water in 2019: How do Countries that Have Ratified the ILO-convention 169 Comply? pp. 577-596

Live Danbolt Drange

Martha Nussbaum’s Capability Approach and the Relevance of Universality in the Af-Pak Region pp. 597-614

Anupam Pandey

Global Trends in Education Inequality: 1950–2010 pp. 615-646

Iñaki Permanyer and Diederik Boertien

The Freedom-based Critique of Well-Being’s Exclusive Moral Claim pp. 647-662

Joshua Isaac Fox

Capability Approach to Valued Pedagogical Practices in Tanzania: An Alternative to Learner-Centred Pedagogy? pp. 663-681

Nozomi Sakata

An Individual-based Index of Multidimensional Poverty for Low- and Middle-Income Countries pp. 682-705

Francesco Burchi, José Espinoza-Delgado, Claudio Montenegro and Nicole Rippin

Editorial: A “Decade for Action” on SDG Localisation pp. 706-712

Mario Biggeri

Local Governments and SDG Localisation: Reshaping Multilevel Governance from the Bottom up pp. 713-724

Edgardo Bilsky, Anna Calvete Moreno and Ainara Fernández Tortosa

Voluntary Local Reviews as Drivers for SDG Localisation and Sustainable Human Development pp. 725-736

Shipra Narang Suri, Martino Miraglia and Andrea Ferrannini

The Role of Transformative Innovation for SDGs Localisation. Insights from the South-African “Living Catchments Project” pp. 737-747

Alejandra Boni, Diana Velasco and Mahlodi Tau

How to Achieve the “Leave No One Behind” Pledge of the SDGs in Newham and Tower Hamlets, East London pp. 748-758

Meera Tiwari

Dimensions of Poverty: Measurement, Epistemic Injustices, Activism pp. 759-760

Paul Shaffer

Realising the Demographic Dividend: Policies to Achieve Inclusive Growth in India pp. 760-762

Flavio Comim

Changing Trends in China’s Inequality: Evidence, Analysis, and Prospects pp. 763-764

Yei-Whei Lin

Volume 22, issue 3, 2021

Using Multidimensional Poverty Measures in Impact Evaluation: Emergency Housing and the “Declustering” of Disadvantage pp. 379-402

Ann Mitchell and Jimena Macció

Rural Youth’s Capacity to Aspire: What Role for Local Government Actions? pp. 403-422

Laura López-Muñoz and Bert Ingelaere

Talking Back to the Research: Indigenous Wellbeing and Resilience Narratives from Urban Australia pp. 423-445

Sophie Hickey

Beyond Utilitarian Economics: A Capability Approach to Energy Poverty and Social Suffering pp. 446-467

Ellen Fungisai Chipango

How Nussbaum's Capabilities Approach Values the Environment: Extrinsically But as an End? pp. 468-485

Jessica van Jaarsveld

Defining and Measuring Informality in India pp. 486-505

Bhaskar Jyoti Neog and Bimal Kishore Sahoo

Footprints of a Winning Idea: Three Decades of the Human Development Paradigm (1990–2019) pp. 506-516

Devin K. Joshi

Accelerating Women’s Empowerment Through Legal Empowerment and Social Accountability Strategies pp. 517-526

Raffaella Pizzamiglio and Pamela Kovacs

Volume 22, issue 2, 2021

Energy Justice and the Capability Approach—Introduction to the Special Issue pp. 185-196

Anders Melin, Rosie Day and Kirsten E. H. Jenkins

Compensation for Energy Infrastructures: Can a Capability Approach be More Equitable? pp. 197-217

Fausto Corvino, Giuseppe Pellegrini-Masini, Alberto Pirni and Stefano Maran

Energy and the Good Life: Capabilities as the Foundation of the Right to Access Energy Services pp. 218-248

Giovanni Frigo, Manuel Baumann and Rafaela Hillerbrand

A Missing Link? Capabilities, the Ethics of Care and the Relational Context of Energy Justice pp. 249-269

Christopher Groves, Fiona Shirani, Nick Pidgeon, Catherine Cherry, Gareth Thomas, Erin Roberts and Karen Henwood

Energy Poverty as a Restriction of Multiple Capabilities: A Systemic Approach for Belgium pp. 270-291

Françoise Bartiaux, Rosie Day and Willy Lahaye

Operationalising Capability Thinking in the Assessment of Energy Poverty Relief Policies: Moving from Compensation-based to Empowerment-focused Policy Strategies pp. 292-315

Joohee Lee, Hana Kim and John Byrne

Who Benefits and How? A Capabilities Perspective on Solar Micro-grids in India pp. 316-335

Sushil Rajagopalan

Using the Capability Approach as a normative perspective on energy justice: Insights from two case studies on digitalisation in the energy sector pp. 336-359

Rafaela Hillerbrand, Christine Milchram and Jens Schippl

Transition to Renewable Energy and Indigenous People in Northern Australia: Enhancing or Inhibiting Capabilities? pp. 360-378

J. Hunt, B. Riley, L. O’Neill and G. Maynard

Volume 22, issue 1, 2021

Coping with Covid-19 from the Capability Perspective: A View from a Developing Country pp. 1-26

S. R. Osmani

Decoding India's Low Covid-19 Case Fatality Rate pp. 27-51

Minu Philip, Debraj Ray and S. Subramanian

CapMod: A Simulated Society to Evaluate Empirical Estimators of Capabilities pp. 52-79

Florian Chávez-Juárez and Jaya Krishnakumar

Connecting Capabilities Across the Species Divide: Friendship and Dignity in Difference pp. 80-86

Breena Holland

Can There Be Friendship Between Human Beings and Wild Animals? pp. 87-107

Rachel Nussbaum Wichert and Martha C. Nussbaum

Friendship in Captivity? Plato’s Lysis as a Guide to Interspecies Justice pp. 108-130

Amy Linch

Animal Capabilities and Freedom in the City pp. 131-153

Nicolas Delon

The Other Species Capability & the Power of Wonder pp. 154-179

Jeremy Bendik-Keymer

Sociological Theory and the Capability Approach pp. 180-182

Bénédicte Zimmermann

Measuring the Unmeasurable in Education pp. 182-184

Nafisa Waziri

Volume 21, issue 4, 2020

When a River Becomes a Person pp. 307-319

Matthias Kramm

From Streets to Developing Aspirations: How Does Collective Agency for Education Change Marginalised Migrant Youths’ Lives? pp. 320-338

Faith Mkwananzi and F. Melis Cin

Parental Disability and Children's Educational Outcomes: Evidence from Tanzania pp. 339-354

Joseph B. Ajefu and Jacqueline Moodley

Implementing a Group-Specific Multidimensional Poverty Measure: The Case of Persons with Disabilities in Peru pp. 355-388

Jhonatan Clausen and Nicolas Barrantes

Meaningful Labour, Employee Ownership, and Workplace Democracy: A Comment on Weidel (2018) pp. 389-397

Lucas McGranahan

Where India Goes: Abandoned Toilets, Stunted Development and the Costs of Caste pp. 398-399

Simantini Mukhopadhyay

Education and Disability in the Global South: New Perspectives from Africa and Asia pp. 399-401

Shailaja Fennell

Volume 21, issue 3, 2020

The Development of Unity pp. 211-222

Leif Wenar

Comments on Leif Wenar's Nussbaum Lecture, “The Development of Unity” pp. 223-229

Martha C. Nussbaum

Extending the Intersection Approach pp. 230-248

Sususmu Cato

Children’s Abilities, Freedom, and the Process of Capability-Formation pp. 249-262

Nico Brando

Conceptualising Capabilities and Dimensions of Advantage as Needs pp. 263-276

Benjamin Fardell

Introduction: Capabilities and Covid-19 pp. 277-279

Mario Biggeri

Human Capabilities and Pandemics pp. 280-286

Sridhar Venkatapuram

Light at the End of the Tunnel: The Capability Approach in the Aftermath of Covid 19 pp. 287-292

Rhys Manley

COVID-19 as a Capability Crisis: Using the Capability Framework to Understand Policy Challenges pp. 293-299

Paul Anand, Bob Ferrer, Qin Gao, Ricardo Nogales and Ellaine Unterhalter

Advancing Human Development: Theory and Practice pp. 300-301

Richard Jolly

Social Policy and the Capability Approach pp. 301-303

Richard Brunner

Resurgent Asia: Diversity in Development pp. 303-305

Rolph van der Hoeven

Volume 21, issue 2, 2020

Collectivist Capabilitarianism pp. 105-120

Claudio D’Amato

Imagining Development: The Chilean Dictatorship and the Case for Political Freedom as a Factor in the Human Development Index pp. 121-136

Natalia Niedmann Álvarez

Can Women’s Self-help Groups Contribute to Sustainable Development? Evidence of Capability Changes from Northern India pp. 137-160

Paul Anand, Swati Saxena, Rolando Gonzales Martínez and Hai-Anh Dang

Ghana’s Planting for Food and Jobs Programme: A Look at the Role of Capability in Farmers’ Participation pp. 161-182

Isaac G. K. Ansah, Munkaila Lambongang and Samuel A. Donkoh

Investigating the Mobility Capabilities and Functionings in Accessing Schools Through Walking: A Quantitative Assessment of Public and Private Schools in São Paulo (Brazil) pp. 183-204

Mateus Humberto, Bruna Pizzol, Filipe Moura, Mariana Giannotti and Marcos Paulo de Lucca-Silveira

Agency and Democracy in Development Ethics pp. 205-207

Stephen L. Esquith

Capabilities in a Just Society: A Theory of Navigational Agency pp. 207-208

Imants Latkovskis

Foundations of Real World Economics: What Every Economics Student Needs to Know pp. 209-210

Rhys Manley

Volume 21, issue 1, 2020

What is a Capability-enhancing Social Policy? Individual Autonomy, Democratic Citizenship and the Insufficiency of the Employment-focused Paradigm pp. 1-16

Francesco Laruffa

Reconceptualizing Educational Capabilities: A Relational Capability Theory for Redressing Inequalities pp. 17-35

Joan G. Dejaeghere

Dignity in Transgender Lives: A Capabilities Approach pp. 36-48

Ryan Reed

Transforming Vulnerability into Power: Exploring Empowerment among Women with Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) in the Context of Migration in Belgium pp. 49-62

Afi Agboli, Mylene Botbol, Sarah O’Neill, Fabienne Richard and Isabelle Aujoulat

Technology and Human Capabilities in UK Makerspaces pp. 63-83

Cian O’Donovan and Adrian Smith

Capabilities and Universalism – An Empirical Examination: The Case of the Ultra-Orthodox Community pp. 84-98

Nechumi Malovicki Yaffe

Development: The Re-Balancing of Economic Powers pp. 99-101

David A. Clark

Higher Education, Youth and Migration in Contexts of Disadvantage: Understanding Aspirations and Capabilities pp. 101-103

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