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What is capability approach? Elaborate the distinctive features of the capability theory of equality.

  • UPSC 2026
  • 15 marks
  • Equality and Liberty

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The capability approach, founded by Amartya Sen in his Tanner Lecture "Equality of What?" (1979), judges a person's advantage by their capabilities — the real freedoms to be and do what they have reason to value. As a theory of equality, it answers Sen's question by proposing basic capability equality.

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