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Title Children and the capability approach / edited by Mario Biggeri, Jérôme Ballet, Flavio Comim
Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 353 pages) : illustrations
Contents List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- PART I: INTRODUCTION AND THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON CHILDREN AND THE CAPABILITY APPROACH -- Introduction: Theoretical Foundations and the Book's Roadmap; F. Comim, J. Ballet, M. Biggeri & V. Iervese -- Children's Agency and the Capability Approach: A Conceptual Framework; J. Ballet, M. Biggeri & F.Comim -- Child Poverty as Capability Deprivation: How to Choose Domains of Child Well-Being and Poverty; M. Biggeri & S. Mehrotra -- PART II: UNDERSTANDING CHILDREN'S CAPABILITIES: METHODS AND CASE STUDIES -- From Valuing to Evaluating: Tools and Procedures to Operationalize the Capability Approach; M. Biggeri & R. Libanora -- Street Children in Kampala and NGOs' Action: Understanding Capabilities Deprivation and Expansion; R. Anich, M. Biggeri, R. Libanora & S. Mariani -- Sen's Capability Approach: Children and Well-Being Explored through the use of Photography; A. Kellock & R. Lawthom -- Child Agency and Identity: The Case of Peruvian Children in a Transitional Situation; M. Horna Padrón & J. Ballet -- Microfinance, Street Children and the Capability Approach: Is Microfinance an Appropriate Tool to Address the Street Children Issue?; B. Serrokh -- 'Good for Children?' Local Understandings versus Universal Prescriptions: Evidence from Three Ethiopian Communities; L. Camfield & Y. Tafere -- Children's Capabilities and Family Characteristics in Italy: Measuring Imagination and Play; T. Addabbo & M. Di Tommaso -- PART III: POLICY IMPLICATIONS -- Re-Thinking Children's Disabilities Through the Capability Lens: A Framework for Analysis and Policy Implications; J. Trani, P. Bakhshi & M. Biggeri -- Re-Thinking Access to Education Through the Capability Approach: The Case of Street Children; J. Ballet, A. Bhukuth & K. Radja -- Re-Examining Children's Economic and Non-Economic Activities using the Capability Approach; M. Biggeri, A. Bhukuth & J. Ballet -- Children's Capabilities: Toward a Framework for Evaluating the Built Environment; J. Uhm, F. Lewis, & T. Banerjee -- PART IV: CONCLUSIONS -- Developing Children's Capabilities: The Role of Emotions and Parenting Style; F.Comim -- Final Remarks and Conclusions: The Promotion of Children's Active Participation; M. Biggeri, F. Comim & J. Ballet
Summary This collection places children's issues at the centre of understandings of human development. Using Amartya Sen's 'Capability Approach', the contributors to this book draw on new tools and theoretical perspectives to understand the role of children in human development. Looking at a wide range of themes including child poverty, microfinance, disability, education, the built environment, the role of emotions and promoting children's active participation, this study furthers the capability approach as a key theoretical perspective in understanding children and development
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Subject Child development -- Developing countries
Child labor -- Developing countries
Poor children -- Developing countries
Child development.
Child Development
Community Participation
Developing Countries
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Child development
Child labor
Poor children
Armut
Kind
Lebenschance
Lebensqualität
Barns utveckling.
Barnarbete.
Fattiga barn.
Skyddsuppfostran.
Developing countries
Entwicklungsländer
Form Electronic book
Author Biggeri, Mario
Ballet, Jérôme
Comim, Flavio
ISBN 9780230308374
0230308376