Human Capabilities and Pandemics

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2954469
AutoresSridhar Venkatapuram (0000-0003-3076-0783)
Ano2020
Volume21
Fascículo3
Páginas280-286
Data de publicação2020-07-02
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Human Development (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1464-9888 • E-ISSN: 1469-9516
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/19452829.2020.1786028
OpenAlexW3038223258
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas6

The COVID-19 pandemic has altered the course of nations, and threatens to erase significant achievements in development. These achievements have been partially motivated by the Capabilities Approach. To stem the widening and entrenchment of inequalities as so happens after epidemics and pandemics reflected in history, policy makers must understand and apply the CA to the COVID-19 response. Three aspects of the CA, including its critique of dominant paradigms and policies affecting human wellbeing, the conception of wellbeing as capabilities, and normative argument for every human being's equal moral claims to capabilities are discussed in relation to the spread of COVID-19 and the spectrum of social responses

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Biology · Capability approach · Development economics · Economics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Inequality · Law and economics · Normative · Pandemic · Political science · Positive economics · Sociology · Agricultural risk and resilience · Computer Science · Employment and Welfare Studies · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Law · Mathematics · Medicine · Philosophy · Virology