Browsing W&L Shepherd Program for the Interdisciplinary Study of Poverty and Human Capability by Subject "Capabilities approach (Social sciences)"
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Exploring Obesity In Rockbridge County
Obesity as an illness is misunderstood. The common misconception is that obesity is an individual's problem and that obesity stems only from irresponsible nutrition. Evidence reveals that the reality of obesity as a disease ... -
Fair Opportunity in Affordable Housing: How the Judicial Remedy in Gautreaux Informed Antipoverty Policy
We should be particularly concerned with relative deprivation in fair housing—the differences between the ghetto and the suburbs—because relativity shows us how inequalities prevent full participation in society.13 According ... -
Family Formation Among Single Mothers in Jamaica
Teenage pregnancy in Jamaica is a development issue because its effects are felt in every facet of the society. The mother’s ability to care for her child both financially and emotionally is severely limited. The effects ... -
Food Freedom: Combatting Paternalism in SNAP
The purpose of this paper was to state the case that we ought not to restrict sugar-sweetened beverages from SNAP because it would be ineffective, stigmatizing, paternalistic, and would violate human capabilities. Moving ... -
The Future's Fix: Using Information and Communications Technology to Reduce Global Poverty
Technological inventions such as the Internet, satellites, mobile technology, and wireless access to information have infiltrated nearly every aspect of human life: personal communication has become distant and instant, ... -
Gender Inequality in African Education: How Can the Lessons of South Africa Apply to the Rest of the Continent?
The worldwide problem of unequal female education cannot be solved by domestic policies alone, and the global institutional order must bend to the necessity of human rights and equality. Promoting growth is not a sufficient ... -
Healthcare for a Population without Health
. . . Today, under the community health based treatment prototype, individuals who provide care for the mentally disabled have two primary duties: to do no harm and to foster the capabilities of their patients. Unfortunately, ... -
Home is where the heart is: The Role of Voluntary Home Visitation Programs in Ensuring Fair Equality of Opportunity for Families
Children from low-income families come to the first day of kindergarten developmentally behind. While education policy has worked to mitigate this disparity, early education programs are not enough to promote true equality ... -
The Homeless Mentally Ill
As of 2009, 20 to 25 percent of homeless people suffered from mental illness, which is three to four times greater than people suffering from mental illness in the general population. In fact, when 25 cities were surveyed ... -
How Can We Provide Access to Family Planning Services in a Culturally Respectful and Ethical Manner in Developing Countries? A Ugandan Case Study
Uganda has the fifth highest fertility rate in the world, and one of the lowest family planning usage rates. While many governments and NGOs measure only physical and economic factors when assessing if a family planning ... -
How do "Victims" Become "Criminals?" Examining the Power of Language in Criminalizing Homelessness (thesis)
In this paper, I begin by outlining various definitions of poverty and homelessness and my reasons for using Amartya Sen's capability-based approach. Then, I transition into my theoretical framework and discuss how deviance ... -
Human Capital or Human Capability: Basic Education from a Capability Perspective
This paper explores why access to quality basic education should remain an investment priority in the development field by comparing the human capital and human capability approach to education. Based on the analysis, the ... -
Impact of Transportation Barriers and Stigmas on the Labor Force Participation of Women in Urban Cities in India
The three important aspects of an ethical framework that promoting human dignity are well-being, liberty, and equality (Pickett, 2022). All three of these are important for a person to live a life if dignity and happiness. ... -
Inadequate Workforce Skillset as a Corrosive Disadvantage: Enhancing Marketable Skills to Combat Housing and Homelessness Issues
This paper explores three key themes in addressing the housing and homelessness paradigm: resource distribution, deservingness, and quality of housing. Firstly, on resource distribution, should housing programs maximally ... -
The Incarceration Addiction: A Toxic, Symbiotic Relationship and an Ethical Response
This paper examines the interlocking factors in the toxic, symbiotic relationship between addiction and incarceration. It begins by discussing the “War on Drugs” that heralded the globally unprecedented swelling of the ... -
Inclusion in Privilege: Increasing Emphasis on Savings to Promote Capabilities for All
Defining poverty as lowness of income dominates anti-poverty efforts in America and averts attention away from schemes that promote capabilities that cumulate to build a minimally dignified life. Meanwhile, the emphasis ... -
International Measurements of Womens Poverty and Capability Approach
This paper attempts to evaluate international poverty measurements using the capability approach developed by Nobel Prize winning economist and philosopher Amartya Sen. Capabilities measurements of poverty are better suited ... -
The Intersection of Poverty and Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Study of Institutional and Individual Disparities in Healthcare for Autism
This paper explores several published articles that report on the intersections between poverty and autism spectrum disorder. Several authors state that access to care for this mental health issue is limited for disadvantaged ... -
The Invisible Problem: Malnutrition in the U.S. and its Cognitive, Physical, and Psychosocial Effects in the Critical Developmental Years
Malnutrition in the United States has been denied and overshadowed by international malnutrition. However, it is time for our nation to face the effects of malnutrition within our borders before we forsake and condemn ... -
Is the Use of Surveillance Technologies Justifiable in Light of its Effects on the Well-Being of Single Mothers Receiving Benefits from the Welfare System in the USA?
The surveillance of single mothers on welfare is a difficult issue to evaluate given that it involves balancing individual privacy rights with citizens' interests in ensuring that government money is being used effectively ...