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Maitreyee, the e-bulletin of the Human Development and Capability Association, analyzes a specific theme that relates to the human development and capability approach. It contains:

• Short articles which are written by experts in the field and which provide a brief overview of the literature for the non-specialist reader.
• Short reviews of practical work being done.

Maitreyee is a starting point for academics and practitioners who work in human development areas and who are seeking a brief introduction to research and work undertaken on a number of human development topics.

It is edited by Séverine Deneulin and Arnab Acharya, and is now issued twice a year.

Member Newsletters

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March 2010 - Citizen accountability


Table of contents:

Fairness, efficiency and accountability in health policy reform:

Norman Daniels's works (Arnab Acharya)

Introducing social accountability in the health sector in Brazil (Monika Dowbor)

Information and demand-making by citizens (A. Acharya and Suchi Pande)

Social accountability in service delivery (Anuradha Joshi)

Responsive governments and responsible citizens: Accountability in the midday meal programme in Delhi (Araddhya Mehtta)

General issues of accountability in Africa (Dereje Alemayehu)

[September 2010 - Religion and Human Development]

October 2009 -- Culture and Development


Table of Contents:
Insights

Cultural freedom and human development today -- Sakiko Fukuda-Parr

Development and Cultural Liberty -- Jan Nederveen Pieterse

A Response to Jan Nederveen Pieterse by Sakiko Fukuda-Parr and Arunabha Ghosh

Endogenous development as interface -- Wim Hiemstra

Limits of culturally appropriate measures in Australia's indigenous health policies -- Francesca Panzironi

Addressing the Controversial Practice of Female Bondage in Ghana -- Agnes A. Apusigah

June 2009 -- Collecting Capability Data


Table of Contents:
Insights

Capabilities and Their Measurement - Paul Anand

Developing a Capability Measure for Use in Public Health Evaluations - Paula Lorgelly

Collecting capability data on the basis of existing surveys: The case of India - Suman Seth
In the Practice

Missing Dimensions of Poverty Data: First National Survey in Chile - OPHI

Survey used to assess capabilities in a context of public health in the UK - Paula Lorgelly et al.

February 2009 -- Gender and Macro Policy


Table of Contents:
Insights

The Poverty Reduction Strategy Framework: Inherent Gender Biases? - Irene van Staveren

CEDAW and Government Budgets - Diane Elson

Gender and trade reforms: Using gendered Social Accounting Matrices - Marzia Fontana
In the Practice

Gender and Development Network (GADN)

Mainstreaming: Closing the Policy-Practice Gap - WIDE Network

October 2008 -- Operationalisation of the capability approach


Table of Contents:

Using the Capability Approach - Sabina Alkire

How has the Capability Approach been put into Practice? - Ingrid Robeyns

Operationalising Human Development: A Programmatic Approach - K. Seeta Prabhu

The Measure of America

The Equality and Human Rights Commission in Britain: Developing an Equality Measurement Framework

June 2008-- Social Exclusion/Inclusion


Table of Contents:

Defining Poverty in the Developing World: Social Exclusion- Frances Stewart, Ruhi Saith, and Barbara Harriss-White

Social Exclusion and its Implications for Development Policy- Naila Kabeer

Social Inclusion and Human Development- Susanne Milcher and Andrey Ivanov

European Union Indicators of Social Exclusion

Tackling Social Exclusion in Croatia

February 2008 -- Employment


Table of Contents:
Insights

The Role of Employment in Promoting Human Development - Siddiq Osmani

Employment and Empowerment - Jean Drèze

Employment: A proposal for internationally comparable indicators - María Ana Lugo
In the Practice

Employment and valuable capabilities in Mexico - Pedro Flores Crespo

The Living Wage Campaign in London: Working for Justice and Expanding Capabilities- Angus Ritchie

October 2007 -- Measuring Dimensions of Wellbeing


Table of Contents
Insights

The Missing Dimensions of Poverty Data -- Sabina Alkire and OPHI team

Epistemology, Normative Theory and Poverty Analysis: Implications for Q-Squared in Practice -- Ravi Kanbur and Paul Shaffer
In the Practice

Methodology for empirical research on wellbeing: A proposal from the Wellbeing in Developing Countries Research Group -- Allister McGregor

June 2007 -- Research and Politics


Table of Contents:
Insights

Bringing politics back into poverty analysis - John Harriss

Human Development Dimensions and Data Constraints - Matthew Clarke and Mark McGillivray

For a Cultural Politics of Natural Resources - Amita Baviskar
In the Practice

Can Women's Commissions facilitate social change? A view of Mississippi's experience - Marianne T. Hill

Why the Moroccan government does not use reliable research when implementing fiscal policy reforms - Brahim Mansouri
Call for Thematic Groups

February 2007 -- multidimensional aspect of poverty/wellbeing


Table of Contents:
Insights

Multidimensional poverty: How to choose dimensions (Sabina Alkire)

Choosing dimensions in the case of children's wellbeing (Mario Biggeri)

A participatory approach to choosing dimensions (Alexandre Apsan Frediani)
In the Practice

The where, what and how of NGO work: An example from Oxfam America (John Hammock)

Multidimensionality of poverty: A perspective from the Dutch NGO SNV (Jyotsna Roy)
Announcements

October 2006 -- Power


Table of Contents:

Foreword to ‘Pathologies of Power’ by Amartya Sen, Harvard University

Review of Power: A Radical View by Stephen Lukes (Palgrave, 2005) by Cathy Shutt, Institute of Development Studies, Sussex

On the Concept of Structural Violence by Fernando Ponce León, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador

On Life Histories, Power Resources, and Structural Violence in Bangladesh by Peter Davis, University of Bath

Pathology of Power: Caste and Capabilities by S. Venkatesan, Oneworld International Foundation, New Delhi

Interview with Smitu Kothari: Part II

June 2006, Issue 5 -- The 2006 Global Human Development Report


Table of Contents:

Human Development Report 2006 Concept Note, by Human Development Report Office

The Human Security Framework and NHDRs by Richard Jolly and Deepayan Basu Ray, Institute of Development Studies, at University of Sussex

Decentralisation and the Human Development Approach by Timothy Scott, UNDP Human Development Report Office

Bitter “sweet crude”: Oil and Poverty in the Niger Delta1 by Sarah Burd-Sharps, Human Development Report Office

Customary Learning in Papua New Guinea by Jim Chalmers, UNDP Papua New Guinea

Growth with equity: does it really have to be a life of contradictions? By Arunabha Ghosh, Human Development Report Office

February 2006 -- Public Debate and Human Development


Table of Contents:

Public Debate and Social Justice by Iris Marion Young, Political Science, University of Chicago

The Capability Approach and Deliberative Democracy by David Crocker, Institute for Philosophy & Public Policy, University of Maryland

Human Development and Habermas’s Critical Theory by Pablo Mella, Instituto Filosófico P. Bonó, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Interview with Smitu Kothari

Public Debate and Dialogue in Uganda: Facing Perilous Times by Stephen Schwenke, Ethics and Public Management Programme, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

October 2005 -- Knowledge and Public Action


Table of Contents:

The Capability Approach and Social Justice in Education by Melanie Walker, University of Sheffield, UK

Education and Development: Renovated Interpretations by Pedro Flores-Crespo and Mathias Nebel (Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico)

On Liberal Civic Education by Mitja Sardoc, Institute of Education, University of London, and Educational Research Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

An experience of the ‘Democratized Education Management and Ownership’ project in Pakistan by Shirin Gul and and Sabrina Saeed Khan (LEAD Pakistan, Islamabad)

Going Beyond Access

June 2005--Contributions to the MDGs


Table of Contents:

Mobilisation, meanings and measures: Reflections on MDG3 and girls’ education by Elaine Unterhalter, Institute of Education, University of London

Millennium Development Goals for health: building human capabilities by Jennifer Prah Ruger, Assistant Professor, Yale University, USA

Ensure Environmental Sustainability: MDG7 and the Capability Approach by Fabian Scholtes, University of Tübigen, Germany

The Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) and the MDGs3

The UNDP Support for the MDGs4

March 2005--The capability approach as an alternative economic framework


Table of Contents:

The Capability Approach as Alternative Economic Framework Culture, Development, Economics and the Capability Approach by Ingrid Robeyns, University of Amsterdam

The Freedom that Enslaves by HDCA working group on popularising the capability approach

'Winning the War of Ideas' : Lessons from the Neo-Liberals by Angus Ritchie (Contextual Theology Centre, East London)

Voices of Power and Whimpers of Values: A Challenge to animating the Capability Approach by Manu V. Mathai (Center for Energy and Environmental Policy, University of Delaware)

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