The aim of this special issue is to draw attention to ‘missing dimensions’ of poverty data – dimensions that are of value to poor people, but for which we have scant or no data. Amartya Sen frames development as the process of expanding the freedoms that people value and have reason to value. Although the most widely-known measure of human development includes income, longevity, and education, ...

New insight into kinetics behavor of the structural formation process in Agar gelation Y.Z.Wang, X.F.Zhang and J.X.Zhang State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, and School of Physics and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, China Bioengineering Program and Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, Lehigh University, 19 Memorial Drive West,...

1 Department of Marine Biotechnology and Resources, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung 804, Taiwan; E-Mails: [email protected] (S.-L.W.); [email protected] (C.-Y.H.); [email protected] (C.-J.T.); [email protected] (C.-C.L.) 2 Center of General Studies, National Kaohsiung Marine University, Kaohsiung 811, Taiwan 3 National Museum of Marine Biology & Aquarium, Ping...

Hot embossing of micro-lens array on bulk metallic glass C.T. Pan a,∗, T.T. Wu a, M.F. Chen a, Y.C. Chang b, C.J. Lee b, J.C. Huang b a Department of Mechanical and Electro-Mechanical Engineering, and Center for Nanoscience & Nanotechnology, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaoshiung 804, Taiwan, ROC b Institute of Materials Science & Engineering, Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Nati...

This study examines the way in which Shared Services Centers (SSCs) were implemented in a French multinational company. It aims to characterize the change according to the capabilities model developed by Amartya Sen: what are the effects of SSCs in terms of capabilities development and developmental quality of work, i.e. in the enabling potential of work? A 3-step methodology has been used: fir...

One of Amartya Sen’s most distinctive claims, and perhaps also one of his most controversial, is that there is an altruistic attitude toward others that does not make sense within the terms of rational choice theory, however broadly that theory is construed. He describes this attitude as one of “commitment” to others, contrasting itwith egoismandalsowith adistinct altruistic attitude he calls “...

This paper draws upon critical theories and the capabilities approach. It argues for a conceptualisation of development as a process designed to enable people to free themselves from structural disadvantage. Amartya Sen has argued that people’s ‘critical-agency’ to question and reject unjust social norms is ‘pivotal’ to human development and important for tackling inequalities of any kind. Frei...

AN TACK,* NICHOLAS J. TALLEY, MICHAEL CAMILLERI, GERALD HOLTMANN, PINJIN HU, UAN-R. MALAGELADA, and VINCENZO STANGHELLINI Department of Gastroenterology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; C.E.N.T.E.R., Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota; Royal delaide Hospital, Adelaide, Australia; Department of Gastroenterology of the First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, hin...

This paper examines Amartya Sen’s notion of ‘commitment’ in light of Geoffrey Brennan’s recent discussion thereof. Its aim is to elucidate one type of commitment which consists in following social norms. To this end, I discuss Sen’s ‘apples’ example from his ‘Rational fools’ essay (section 2). In section 3, I draw some implications of commitments in Sen’s work for the concept of ‘agent relativi...

L. K. Xue, T. Wang, J. Gao, A. J. Ding, X. H. Zhou, D. R. Blake, X. F. Wang, S. M. Saunders, S. J. Fan, H. C. Zuo, Q. Z. Zhang, and W. X. Wang Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China Environment Research Institute, Shandong University, Ji’nan, Shandong, China Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, China Institut...