What Can the Capabilities Approach Learn from an Ubuntu Ethic? A Relational Approach to Development Theory

•Considers how the capabilities’ approach can be reconciled with an ubuntu ethic.•Develops a new account of capabilities as inherently relational.•Show that this provides an intuitive and unified theoretical framework.•Examines implications for empirical work on poverty.•Shows how African intellectu...

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Veröffentlicht in:	World development 2017-09, Vol.97, p.153-164
Hauptverfasser:	Hoffmann, Nimi, Metz, Thaddeus
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Ability African ethics capabilities’ approach development theory Ethical standards Ethics Indication poverty relational ethics Southern Hemisphere Studies Tension Traditions ubuntu
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