The Missing Dimensions of the Human Capabilities Approach: Collective and Productive

In this paper we identify two missing dimensions of the Human Capabilities Approach (HCA)—the collective and productive—and in doing so advance a ‘productionist’ perspective on development, centred around idea ‘collective productive capabilities’. Bringing production back to core development agenda calls for an integration HCA those contributions which have focused their attention social, economic institutional processes learning, organisations systems. The lack focus capabilities undermined Millenium Development Goals Agenda is still having negative impacts ways Sustainable understood implemented.