Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Gasper, D.R.
Author-Name-Last: Gasper
Author-Name-First: Des
Title: Problem- and policy-analysis for human development
Abstract: Much of Amartya Sens work has been directly policy-related, but his
 methodology of policy analysis has not been explained in detail. Action-related
 social science involves value-imbued procedures that guide the numerous
 unavoidable choices. This theme was explored earlier by authors close to Sens
 milieu such as Streeten and Stretton, and by forerunners including Dewey and
 Myrdal. Assisted by Jean Drèze, Sen has evolved a form of policy analysis
 guided by humanist values rather than those of mainstream economics.
 1) A wider range of values employed in
 how do and can people live? 2) Conceptual
 investigation of the wider range of values. 3) Use of the wider range of values
 to guide choice of topics and boundaries of analysis. 4) Hence a focus on
 human realities, not on an arbitrary slice of reality selected according to
 commercial significance and convenience for measurement. 5) Use of the
 wider range of values to guide other decisions in analysis; thus a focus on the
 socio-economic significance of results. 6) A matching focus on a wide range of
 potential policy means. The paper characterizes Sens policy analysis
 methodology, its roots in earlier work, and its relations to the UNDP Human
 Development approach and kindred approaches.
Creation-Date: 2007-12-01
File-URL: https://repub.eur.nl/pub/18743/wp451.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
Series: RePEc:ems:euriss
Keywords: capability approach, entitlements approach, human development, policy analysis
Handle: RePEc:ems:euriss:18743