The Capability Approach

1. Introduction: The Capability Approach: From Theory to Practice — Rationale, Review and Reflections
Solava Ibrahim

2. Capability Approach, Livelihoods and Social Inclusion: Agents of Change in Rural India
Meera Tiwari

3. The Dynamics of Collective Agency in Practice: Women’s Fight against FGM in Upper Egypt
Solava Ibrahim

4. Growing Up on the Street — Understanding the Lives of Street Children and Youth in Africa
Wayne Shand

5. An Agency-Oriented Exploration of Capabilities: Reflections from the UNDP 2010 Brasil Ponto a Ponto Campaign
Alexandre Apsan Frediani

6. Sustainability and the Capability Approach: From Theory to Practice?
P. B. Anand

7. Using the Capability Approach to Evaluate Health and Care for Individuals and Groups in England
Tania Burchardt, Polly Vizard

8. Capability Approach Applications in Germany: Official Poverty and Wealth Reporting and Beyond
Jürgen Volkert

9. Integrating Human Capital and Human Capabilities in Understanding the Value of Education
Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti, Anna Sabadash

10. French Public Involvement in Fair Trade: An Opportunity to Link the Solidarity Economy and the Capability Approach
Hanitra Randrianasolo, Jean Luc Dubois

11. Conclusion: Key Contributions and Lessons Learned from Challenges in Applying the Capability Approach
Meera Tiwari

Keywords: Economics, Development Economics, Development Policy, Poverty, Aid and Development, Development Theory, Development Studies, Methodology of the Social Sciences