Development as freedom
Perspective of freedom
wealth is not the good we seek, it is only an instrument to achieve a goal.
Wealth help us for having more freedom to lead the kind of lives we have a reason to value.
Development has to be more concerned with enhancing the lives we lead and freedoms we enjoy
Poverty, quality of life and authoritarian regimes are impediments for freedoom.
very many people in world suffer from varieties of unfreedom for example:
-People with the unfreedom to survive in countries with famines.
-Denial of human rights and political freedom
Process make possible the liberty action and decision how the real opportunities that people have
Unfreedom can arise either through inadequate process or opportunities that some people have for achieving what they mainly would like to achieve
Process and opportunities have importance of own right and they relate with the liberty development
The two roles of freedom are Evaluation and effectiveness
The success of a society needs to be evaluate in function of the fundamental liberties that people enjoy.
Having more freedom for do the things that we have reasons to value is important for the total liberty of the people and for increase the opportunities of a person to get great results. This is how we can evaluate society development
Incomes and Capabilities
Capabilities are the real capabilities that people have for transform their rights in real liberties
Low incomes can be cause of illiteracy and bad health and vice versa
Poverty= unfreedom of elemental capabilities and this supposes low incomes which affect the life quality
The unfreedom grade in the richest countries are comparable with the poorest countries
Afroamerican people often suffer unfreedom in complete terms and their life expectancy are lower than people who live in poorest countries still having better incomes
example:
The relation of market with freedom raises two issues: The denial of the opportunities to get transactions. (Which means unfreedom).
-Markets contribute to wealth and incomes
The market discipline has tended to leave to center their attention in the value of liberties and started to look at profits
The conjunction of work in indebtedness and servitude conditions give place to an unfreedom in pre-capitalism agricultures
Development in terms of the sustantive freedoms of people has far-reaching for our understanding of the process of development and also for the ways and means of promoting it.
Process and opportunities
Roles of freedom
Market and transactions
Unfreedom
Mortality
Development looks for amply liberties
Effectiveness depends on people agency
Types of freedom: Politics liberties, Economic services, social opportunities, transparency garanties and security
They complement each other