Capability-Promoting Policies: Enhancing Individual and Social Development

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This volume answers fundamental questions about how human development is fostered; How to overcome unjust societies with better distribution of opportunities to flourish; How can human development be revitalized in countries where social welfare is put into question? The book focuses on analysing existing development policies and suggesting coherent and systematic strategies for policies at the local, national and international level.

Hans-Uwe Otto is Senior Research Professor and Director of the Bielefeld Center for Education and Capability Research at Bielefeld University. In addition, he is Adjunct Professor at the School of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia and Guest Professor at Shanghai University. Professor Melanie Walker joined the University of the Free State in February 2012 as Senior Research Professor in Higher Education and Human Development. In 2013 she was appointed as NRF Chair in Higher Education and Human Development. She is an Al-rated NRF researcher. Holger Ziegler is Professor for Social Work at the Faculty of Educational Science (specialising in professional theory, social justice research, and impact research) at Bielefeld University and Co-Director of the Bielefeld Center for Education and Capability Research.

"this well-researched volume can function as a model for any author who might wish to research capabilities-enhancing policies in other social policy fields." Citizen's Income "The capability approach has the remarkable ability to bring thinkers from substantially different places in this world together - and so does this book." Rene Lehwess-Litzmann, Soziologisches Forschungsinstitut Goettingen an der Georg-August-Universitat (SOFI), Germany "This book represents a sound picture of the current understanding and use of the Capability Approach. The book deserves a wide readership - academics, students, practitioners and policy makers." Niels Rosendal Jensen, Danish School of Education (EDU), Aarhus University, Denmark