Introduction and Overview: Poverty, Human Rights, and Sen’s ‘Capability Approach’
Author(s)
Vizard, Polly
Abstract
This chapter outlines an analysis of the ways in which the work of Nobel Laureate Professor Amartya Sen has advanced international thinking about global poverty as a human rights issue. This book explores Sen’s research agenda from a human rights perspective and assesses the significance of his work for a contemporary human rights project that includes the elimination of global poverty as a central and critical objective.
