Development can be seen as a process of expanding the real freedoms that people enjoy.
Economists
Born 1933
Born 1933, Bengal. Witnessed the 1943 famine. Created the capability approach, shifting welfare from income to real freedoms. Nobel 1998. Theoretical basis for the UN Human Development Index.
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