a Department of Business Management, National Sun Yat-sen University, 70, Lienhai Rd., Kaohsiung 80424, Taiwan, R.O.C. b Department of Commerce Automation and Management, National Pingtung Institute of Commerce, 51, Minsheng E. Rd., Pingtung City 90004, Taiwan, R.O.C. c Department of Finance, National Sun Yat-sen University, 70, Lienhai Rd. Kaohsiung 80424, Taiwan, R.O.C. d Long Bon Development...

Preliminary and Incomplete. Please do not cite. Introduction There is worldwide agreement on poverty reduction as a key development policy goal; however there is little agreement on the definition of poverty. The definition of poverty is critical for successful poverty eradication strategies. Traditionally poverty was approached using univariate metrics, such as income or consumption expenditur...

E-development is often pursued with unquestioned assumptions about its contribution to human development. This paper draws upon Amatya Sen’s capability approach to provide some theoretical reflections on e-development. It is argued that the capability approach allows us to take into account a variety of important issues surrounding ICT adoption for development. It also proposes the capability a...

Amartya Sen’s capability approach to human welfare recognizes the impact of social institutions on human capabilities. But as an evaluative framework, it does not analyze the role of institutionalized power in causing or perpetuating inequalities in individual opportunities to achieve. Drawing on authors who are receptive to the capability approach and who have examined the political aspects of...

Mahatma Gandhi was visiting Rabindranath Tagore’s School in Santiniketan, just outside Calcutta, India. A young girl approached him for an autograph. In her book he penned this entry: “Never make a promise in haste. Having once made it fulfil it at the cost of your life.” His words have crossed my mind more than once, especially the first part of the entry “never make a promise in haste” during...

This note points to certain similarities of orientation and outcome between Derek Parfit’s quest for a theory of beneficence and Amartya Sen’s quest for a suitable realvalued representation of poverty. It suggests that both projects, in a certain sense, have been instructive failures. Using Sen’s own work, the note also suggests a logically natural way of dealing with some of the problems in po...

The capability approach to human development, proposed by Amartya Sen and others, is now a prominent perspective within welfare economics and development economics. I argue that the capability approach, like Post Keynesianism, can be situated within the Cambridge economic tradition, a tradition grounded on classical economics, and characterized by an ontological focus on themes such as openness...

1School of Informatics, Linyi University, Linyi, Shandong 276005, China 2Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Missouri S&T, Rolla, MO 65409-0020, USA 3Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Niğde University, 51200 Niğde, Turkey 4Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Agder, Postboks 422, 4604 Kristiansand, Norway 5School of Mathematics, Sun Yat-sen University,...

In this Comment, I examine Christoph Hanisch’s recent contribution to this journal. In commenting on Hanisch’s essay, I offer an interpretation of Amartya Sen’s notion of ‘commitment’ which makes committed choices both uncontroversial and quotidian. This interpretation contrasts with those which see some of Sen’s pronouncements on commitment to be obviously false, counterintuitive or psychologi...

M. Daghofer,1,* Q.-L. Luo,2,3 R. Yu,4 D. X. Yao,2,3,5 A. Moreo,2,3 and E. Dagotto2,3 1IFW Dresden, P.O. Box 27 01 16, D-01171 Dresden, Germany 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-1200, USA 3Materials Science and Technology Division, ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6032, USA 4Department of Physics & Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, Texas...