Amartya Sen’in Kapasite Yaklaşımı ve İnsan Merkezli Bir Kalkınma Anlayışı

Abstract

Actual development can eventuate only in a society where the focus is enriching human lives. An approach, which focuses the expansion of income or economic outcomes, is inadequate to explain such a process; a high income by itself was no defense against human deprivation, because many human choices extend far beyond economic well-being. Amartya Sen’s influential “capability approach” constitutes the philosophical and conceptual foundation of a human centered development view. There, human development approach stands as a considerable progress in development. This approach focuses on people’s basic capabilities and their freedom by putting them in center of its analysis. Then, this study includes the investigation of the contents and development of this approach.