Human Development and Capability Association
Encyclopedia
The Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA) was launched in September 2004 at the Fourth Capability Conference in Pavia
, Italy
. Nobel
Laureate Amartya Sen
was the founding President and remained President until 2006 when Martha Nussbaum
became President, succeeded by Frances Stewart
in 2008. The HDCA was founded to promote research from many disciplines on key problems including poverty, justice, well-being, and economics. The Association holds annual conferences; maintains a website and mailing list; supports training activities; and provides a forum in which collaborative research can emerge. The HDCA also produces a peer-reviewed journal, the Journal of Human Development: A Multi-Disciplinary Journal for People-Centered Development. The HDCA is supported by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC).
Pavia
Pavia , the ancient Ticinum, is a town and comune of south-western Lombardy, northern Italy, 35 km south of Milan on the lower Ticino river near its confluence with the Po. It is the capital of the province of Pavia. It has a population of c. 71,000...
, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
. Nobel
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
Laureate Amartya Sen
Amartya Sen
Amartya Sen, CH is an Indian economist who was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory, and for his interest in the problems of society's poorest members...
was the founding President and remained President until 2006 when Martha Nussbaum
Martha Nussbaum
Martha Nussbaum , is an American philosopher with a particular interest in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, political philosophy and ethics....
became President, succeeded by Frances Stewart
Frances Stewart
Frances Julia Stewart is Professor of Development Economics and Director of the Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity , University of Oxford. A pre-eminent development economist, she was named one of fifty outstanding technological leaders for 2003 by Scientific American...
in 2008. The HDCA was founded to promote research from many disciplines on key problems including poverty, justice, well-being, and economics. The Association holds annual conferences; maintains a website and mailing list; supports training activities; and provides a forum in which collaborative research can emerge. The HDCA also produces a peer-reviewed journal, the Journal of Human Development: A Multi-Disciplinary Journal for People-Centered Development. The HDCA is supported by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC).