Poverty is as misunderstood as any subject can be. At one level, it could mean no food, no clothes, bad health, and recognized inadequacy of shelters, amenities, and services.

Central capabilitarian theories of well-being focus exclusively on actual opportunities to attain states of being and doing that people have reason to value. Consequently, these theories characterise ...

Amartya Sen has reshaped how we measure poverty by placing human capabilities at the centre of development. He has urged the world to see development not just in income, but in the real freedoms ...