The development as enlargement of human capabilities: similarities between Amartya Sen and Celso Furtado
The meaning of the term development has been expanded significantly and nowadays there is recognition that mere economic growth is not necessarily synonymous of development. Thus, this article aims to examine the concept of development as the enlargement or the expansion of human capabilities. To ac...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2015 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Regional de Blumenau (FURB) |
| Repositorio: | Revista Brasileira de Desenvolvimento Regional (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.bu.furb.br:article/4805 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ojsrevista.furb.br/ojs/index.php/rbdr/article/view/4805 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Amartya Sen Celso Furtado development human capabilities. capacidades humanas desarrollo. Amartya Sem desenvolvimento. |
| Sumario: | The meaning of the term development has been expanded significantly and nowadays there is recognition that mere economic growth is not necessarily synonymous of development. Thus, this article aims to examine the concept of development as the enlargement or the expansion of human capabilities. To achieve this task, it seeks to discuss what is the meaning of development based on the Amartya Sen and Celso Furtado concepts, and then carry out a dialogue with their theories. The methodology used was bibliographical research, applied to the analysis of the texts of the chosen authors for a comparative discussion. During the analysis, there we discovered connections between Sen and Furtado on the essence of development, once the concepts of Expansion of Potentials (Furtado) and Extension of Human Capabilities (Amartya Sen) are related to the development perspective in its human and social dimension. It was found to be possible to verify a connection between these authors, since development is understood as expansion of human capabilities and that such extension does not occur if the necessary objective conditions for its realization are not assured.JEL-Code | B50; O10; O15. |
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