The capability approach is widely used as a “north star” guiding much development practice and research. Amartya Sen has been very influential in this community. The MDPI is pretty new, but it has at least a little purchase at at the UNDP and World Bank, among others. It’s probably worth at this point reiterating that I’d say the MDPI is “capability inspired” rather than “the capability approach in practice.”
On the question of data: it’s the opposite. I’m quite confident that those questions were chosen because we have a reasonable amount of cross-country historical data on them thanks to the DHS surveys.
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The capability approach is widely used as a “north star” guiding much development practice and research. Amartya Sen has been very influential in this community. The MDPI is pretty new, but it has at least a little purchase at at the UNDP and World Bank, among others. It’s probably worth at this point reiterating that I’d say the MDPI is “capability inspired” rather than “the capability approach in practice.”
On the question of data: it’s the opposite. I’m quite confident that those questions were chosen because we have a reasonable amount of cross-country historical data on them thanks to the DHS surveys.
Title has been updated. Thank you! This didn’t occur to me.