This article explores how social holidays in Finland function as capability-enhancing interventions for low-income families. Drawing on the behavioural capability approach and qualitative interview...

HDCA’s flagship hybrid event: annual Amartya Sen Lecture by Prof Thomas Piketty on the Global Justice Report, at Paris School of Economics.

Within the framework of an agreement with the Piedmont Regional Government, the Italian National Institute for the Analysis of Public Policies developed the Multidimensional Analysis of Capability ...

Join us on November 26, 2026 for the 2026 Mahbub ul Haq Lecture featuring Winnie Byanyima at the UCL Institute of Education. This event is free, open to the public, and will be connected via a live st...

Join us on November 4, 2026, for the 2026 Amartya Sen Lecture featuring Thomas Piketty at the Paris School of Economics. This event is free, open to the public, and will be connected via a live stream...

This paper analyzes the evolution of Latin American social protection systems during the inclusionary period from the beginning of the 2000s to the mid-2010s. Using microdata from household surveys...

Sara Turnbull, Lancaster University Equal treatment isnt always fair treatment and nowhere is that clearer than in a classroom trying [...]

The use of Sen's Capability Approach (CA) in disability research has become increasingly popular, and this paper reviews how CA has been used to inform empirical disability research. We conducted a...

HDCA Online Panel on inequality in global knowledge production, focusing on the benefits and challenges of conducting research in the Global South. Panel 1: Understanding inequality in global knowledg...

This study examines the empirical operationalisation of Nussbaum’s central capabilities in a Mexican university context and explores the role of psychological characteristics as personal conversion...

A core belief in development economics is that inequality will increase initially as economic development proceeds. This belief was widely shared by development economics in the 1960s and 1970s, an...

HDCA Online Panel on inequality in global knowledge production, focusing on the benefits and challenges of conducting research in the Global South. Panel 1: Understanding inequality in global knowledg...

Professor Ann Mitchell brings together a kaleidoscopic review of theoretical frameworks for understanding epistemic justice  with an account of the [...]

This paper reexamines markets and firms through the capability approach, advocating a shift toward a more human-centred economic paradigm. Although the capability literature has grown across discip...

Volume 27, Issue 3 of Journal of Human Development and Capabilities

HDCA Online Panel on inequality in global knowledge production, focusing on the benefits and challenges of conducting research in the Global South. Panel 1: Understanding inequality in global knowledge production: Theoretical frameworks and empirical evidence. Panel 2: Southern knowledge: From const...

La Responsabilidad Social Corporativa (RSC) ha sido interpretada desde marcos que habitualmente la reducen a la maximización de beneficios económicos o a iniciativas filantrópicas desvinculadas de ...

This narrative inquiry involves six 15–18-year-old students with type 1 diabetes (T1DM) at two co-educational independent boarding schools and one university in northern England. Through semi-struc...

This study explores youth perceptions of sacrifice for future aspirations through the lens of the Human Development Index (HDI), emphasising its intersection with education and sustainability. Util...

Charline Elias, Lancaster University, UK Charline Elias argues that as AI reshapes higher education, our central concern should be whether [...]

This article examines the limitations of existing Business and Human Rights (BHR) frameworks on the matter of addressing the complex ways war undermines women’s capabilities. The war in Ukraine ser...

In this article, I present a formal and relational definition of moral value, which is not based on any specific intrinsic or extrinsic property or relational criteria in particular. With this defi...

The Journal of Global Ethics invites contributions on the theme of “International Solidarity, Development Cooperation, and Development Ethics – Which [...]

Within Western development discourse, women’s economic activity is often assumed to automatically lead to their empowerment. Using empirical qualitative research with focus groups as the primary re...

This book discusses conditionality in social policy from normative, ethical, and philosophical perspectives in depth.

An online seminar hosted by the HDCA Education Thematic Group featured Prof Lorella Terzi (University of Roehampton) presenting her 2025 paper, Defending well-being as an educational aim: insights from the capability approach. Her work draws on the capability approach to argue for well-being as an overarching aim of education. Respondent: Prof Laura DOlimpio (University of Birmingham)

Organised by the HDCA’s Thematic Group on Empowerment and Collective Capabilities, this webinar is Part 1 of the

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Paper Development Workshop for the JHDC Special Issue: Beyond Development Paradigms for Sustainable Futures. Session III.. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Paper Development Workshops for the JHDC Special Issue: Beyond Development Paradigms for Sustainable Futures. Description: On 26-28 May 2026, the [...]

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Paper Development Workshop for the JHDC Special Issue: Beyond Development Paradigms for Sustainable Futures. Session II. . After registering, you will recei...

Paper Development Workshops for the JHDC Special Issue: Beyond Development Paradigms for Sustainable Futures. Description: On 26-28 May 2026, the [...]

On 26-28 May 2026, the co-editors of the JHDC Special Issue: Beyond Development Paradigms for Sustainable Futures, will be running an online paper development workshop for contributing authors to faci...

Paper Development Workshops for the JHDC Special Issue: Beyond Development Paradigms for Sustainable Futures. Description: On 26-28 May 2026, the [...]