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CAPABILITY-PROMOTING POLICIES

Enhancing individual and social development

Edited by Hans-Uwe Otto, Melanie Walker and Holger Ziegler

First published in Great Britain in 2018 by

Policy Press University of Bristol 1-9 Old Park Hill Bristol BS2 8BB UK Tel +44 (0)117 954 5940 e-mail

North American office: Policy Press c/o The University of Chicago Press 1427 East 60th Street Chicago, IL 60637, USA t: +1 773 702 7700 f: +1 773-702-9756 e:

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ISBN 978-1-4473-3431-6 hardcover

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The right of Hans-Uwe Otto, Melanie Walker and Holger Ziegler to be identified as editors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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Contents

Hans-Uwe Otto, Melanie Walker and Holger Ziegler

Reiko Gotoh

Elise Klein and Paola Ballon

Indira Mahendravada

Guillermo Bornemann-Martnez, Pedro Caldentey and Emilio J. Morales-Fernndez

Sverine Deneulin, Eduardo Lpore, Ann Mitchell and Ana Lourdes Surez

Mark J. Stern and Susan C. Seifert

Giuseppe Acconcia, Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti and Paolo R. Graziano

Ina Conradie

Brid Featherstone and Anna Gupta

Sharon Bessell

Franziska Felder

Antoanneta Potsi

Christian Christrup Kjeldsen

Xavier Rambla

Hans-Uwe Otto, Melanie Walker and Holger Ziegler

List of figures

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Notes on contributors

Giuseppe Acconcia is an award-winning journalist and researcher focusing on the Middle East. He is a Teaching Assistant at Bocconi and Cattolica University in Milan (Italy), is a PhD candidate at the University of London (Goldsmiths), and is involved in an international research project (EU-FP7) on youth movements (Pavia University). His research interests focus on youth and social movements, Iranian domestic politics, state and transformation in the Middle East. He graduated from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London writing a dissertation on the role of the military in politics in Egypt, Syria and Iraq. He is the author of The Great Iran (Exorma, 2016), Liberi tutti (Oedipus, 2015), Egypt. Military Democracy (Exorma, 2014) and The Egyptian Spring (Infinito, 2012).

Paola Ballon is Researcher in Development Economics at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford, UK, and Lecturer of econometrics and statistics at ESAN Graduate School of Business in Lima, Peru. Her expertise is on the measurement and the econometric analysis of multidimensional poverty in Africa and South Asia. Her research interests comprise the operationalisation of the 'Amartya Sen Capability Approach' and the use of mixed-methods for the study of water-security, female empowerment, and shame-poverty. She is Associate Editor for Oxford Development Studies, and former member of the Editorial Board of the Review of Income and Wealth.

Sharon Bessell is Associate Professor at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University (Australia). Her research interests revolve around issues of social justice and human rights, and focus on two broad areas. The first is social policy, social justice and the human rights of children. The second is the gendered and generational dimensions of poverty. She has a strong interest in research ethics and methodology, and has published widely on undertaking research with children.

Guillermo Adolfo Bornemann-Martnez, Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration (20072014) of the Central American University, Managua, Nicaragua. Consultant for different international development agencies and local organisations. Chair of the International Conference on Human Development and Capacities, HDCA 2013 (Managua, Nicaragua). Researcher and professor on issues related to poverty and human development, especially in the analysis of the impact of public policies and development.

Pedro Caldentey del Pozo is a specialist in Central American countries, human development, international cooperation and comparative regional integration. He is Director of the Department of Economics of the Universidad Loyola Andaluca where he teaches Applied Economics. He is Director of the Research Master in Inclusive and Sustainable Development. He was former Director of the ETEA Foundation, the Institute for Development at Universidad Loyola Andaluca. Caldentey worked as Senior Advisor of the Spain-SICA Fund at the General Secretariat of the Central American Integration System (20072011). He has years of experience in the design of development policies and instruments in regional integration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Spain, the European Union, ECLAC, OECD, IICA and the regional institutions of the Central American Integration System. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Entreculturas Foundation, ETEA Foundation and Secretary of the Board of Directors of Fairtrade Iberia.

Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti is Full Professor of Economics at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Pavia (Italy). For the term 2014-2018 she is appointed as an Extraordinary Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences at the University of Free State, South Africa. She acts as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities and she has been Vice-President of the Human Development and Capability Association for the terms 2004-2008 and 2010-2011. Her main research interests are in the field of poverty and income inequality measurement; multidimensional approaches to poverty and well-being, capability and human development approach; fuzzy sets theory and fuzzy logic for well-being analysis; gender inequality, unpaid work and female empowerment.

Ina Conradie is the Coordinator of the SA-German Centre for Development Research at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town (South Africa). She is also a Senior Lecturer in the Institute for Social Development at the same university. Her research interests are the role of aspirations in capability achievement, gender policies, and social policies that impact on poverty and inequality.

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