Economics1,284 following
Does economic growth always improve quality of life?
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Raised by Ouattara Bamadou14 May 20263 sources
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Development as Freedom
Amartya Sen · 1999 · Oxford University Press
Argues that development should be measured as the expansion of real freedoms people enjoy, not as income growth alone.
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“Development consists of the removal of various types of unfreedoms that leave people with little choice and little opportunity of exercising their reasoned agency.”
“Growth of GNP or of individual incomes can, of course, be very important as means to expanding the freedoms enjoyed by the members of the society. But freedoms depend also on other determinants.”
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How much does geography determine economic development?
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Raised by Dr. Femi Akintola21 Apr 20264 sources
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