Conceptualising Health: Insights from the Capability Approach

CONCEPTUALISING HEALTH: INSIGHTS FROM THE CAPABILITY APPROACH Forthcoming in Health Care Analysis

An Implementation Research Approach to Evaluating Health Insurance Programs: Insights from India

One of the distinguishing features of implementation research is the importance given to involve implementers in all aspects of research, and as users of research. We report on a recent implementation research effort in India, in which researchers worked together with program implementers from one of the longest serving government funded insurance schemes in India, the Rajiv Aarogyasri Scheme (...

Insights The Capability Approach and Social Justice in Education

ou attended the fifth international conference on the capability ternational conference under the umbrella of the Human Association, in Paris last month. We are very heartened to ion from a long list of countries and institutions from across the bers from the conference indicates this exciting expansion of rch. Over 242 people from 43 countries were in attendance. In poster presentations were m...

The Capability Approach: Insights for a New Poverty Focus

The concepts of poverty, social exclusion and deprivation are widely employed but often problematic. This paper discusses some problems with prominent interpretations of these concepts and how Amartya Sen’s capability approach can provide a conceptual framework that can overcome these problems. It is argued that the capability approach can reflect the many ways that human lives are blighted and...

Absorptive Capability and Competitive Advantage: Some Insights from Indian Pharmaceutical Industry

Every firm learns through firm specific methods. This learning process is operationalized by firm’s knowledge management practices. Therefore, knowledge to result in successful learning should be assisted by a combinative framework which can enhance a firms’ absorptive capability. This in turn will play a decisive role for achieving competitive advantage. Current literature in strategic managem...