Sabina Alkire - Publications



Books



The Capability Approach: Concepts, Measures and Applications. With Comim and Qizilbash, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Forthcoming 2007].

What Can One Person Do? Faith to Heal a Broken World. New York: Church Publishing. 2005.

Valuing Freedoms: Sen's Capability Approach and Poverty Reduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2002.


Other Works



"Using the Capability Approach: Prospective and Evaluative Analyses." In Alkire, Comim, and Qizilbash, eds., The Capability Approach: Concepts, Measures, and Applications. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Forthcoming 2007].

"Instrumental Freedoms and Human Capabilities" In Esquith, ed., Justice and Poverty. Ed. with Comim and Qizilbash. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Forthcoming 2007].

"Development: A Misconceived Theory Can Kill." In Morris, ed., Amartya Sen: Contemporary Philosophy in Focus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Forthcoming 2007].

"The Capability Approach as a Development Paradigm." Feltrinelli Foundation. [Forthcoming 2007].

"Choosing Dimensions: the Capability Approach and Multidimensional Poverty." In Silber, ed., The Many Dimensions of Poverty. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. [Forthcoming 2007].

"Measuring Freedoms Alongside Well-being." In Gough and McGregor, eds., Well-Being in Developing Countries: New Approaches and Research Strategies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2006.

"Structural Injustice and Democratic Practice: The Trajectory in Sen's Writings." In Deneulin, Nebel and Sagovsky, eds., Capability and Justice. New York: Springer. 2006.

"Needs and Capabilities" In Reader, ed., The Philosophy of Need. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements. Cambridge: Cambridge Universtiy Press. 2006.

"Public Debate and Value Construction in Sen's Approach" In Kaufman, ed., Capabilities Equality: Basic Issues and Problems. Oxford: Routledge. 2006.

"Medical Exceptionalism in International Migration: Should Doctors and Nurses be Treated Differently?" With Lincoln Chen. In Tamas and Palme, eds., Globalizing Migration Regimes. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2006.

"Religion and Development" In Clar, ed., The Elgar Companion to Development Studies. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. 2006.

"The Role of External Actors." In Rao and Walton, eds., Culture and Public Action: A Cross-Disciplinary Dialogue on Development Policy. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press. 2004.

"Concepts of Human Security." In Chen, Fukuda-Parr, and Seidensticker, eds., Human Insecurity in a Global World. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 2003.

"Global Citizenship and Common Values." In Dower and Williams, eds., Global Citizenship: A Critical Reader. Edinburgh University Press. 2002.

"Individual Motivation, its Nature, Determinants and Consequences for within Group Behaviour." With Severine Deneulin. In Heyer, Stewart and Thorp, eds., Group Motivation and Development: Is the Market Destroying Cooperation? Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2002.

"The Basic Dimensions of Human Flourishing: A Comparison of Accounts." In Biggar and Black, eds., The Revival of Natural Law: Philosophical, Theological and Ethical Responses to the Finnis-Grisez School. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2001.


Journal Articles



"Subjective Quantitative Studies of Human Agency." Social Indicators Research. 74(1):217-260. October 2005.

"Why the Capability Approach?" Journal of Human Development. 6(1):115-135. March 2005.

"Global Health and Moral Values." With Lincoln Chen. The Lancet. 364:1069-1074. 18 September 2004.

"Dimensions of Human Development." World Development. 30(2):181-205. February 2002.

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