The Human Development Capability Approach Annual Conference

Conferência anual HDCA 2013
Tema: Desenvolvimento humano: vulnerabilidade, inclusão e bem-estar
9 a 12 de setembro de 2013, em Managua Nicaragua

The conference will look at the reality of Nicaragua and Central America from the perspective of human development. Over the past 20 years Nicaragua has experienced high rates of economic growth and made significant progress in social indicators, particularly in relation to the Millennium Development Goals. However, gender, ethnic, racial, spatial and social inequalities still persist.

These inequalities in the opportunities that people have to live lives they have reason to value constitute serious obstacles to progress in human development and to the sustainability of the MDGs achieved. The 2013 HDCA Conference will provide an opportunity to support the design of public policies to tackle the causes of poverty and inequality.

Inequality generates vulnerability. People have fewer opportunities to satisfy their basic needs and cannot exercise or sustain valuable capabilities. For example, inequality in access to education and basic social services limits people’s opportunities to participate actively in economic, social and political life.

Therefore, reducing inequalities requires an in-depth analysis of the causes and persistence of social exclusion, particularly of specific social groups.

The design of social inclusion policies is central to human development and to people’s wellbeing.
The 2013 HDCA Conference aims at establishing conceptual frameworks and programmes of action to reduce inequality, vulnerability and social exclusion in Latin America and beyond.

Confirmed keynote speakers:
– Amartya Sen, University of Harvard
– Joshua Cohen, University of Stanford
– Susan Pick, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
– Tony Atkinson, Nuffield College, University of Oxford
– José Antonio Ocampo, Columbia University, New York
– Martha Nussbaum, University of Chicago
– Luis Ugalde s.j., Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Venezuela
– Luis Felipe López Calva, World Bank
– George Gray Molina, UNDP- Latin America and the Caribbean Office
– José Pineda, UNDP – Human Development Report Office

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Submissão de propostas até 15 de março de 2013

Local: Economics and Business Faculty, Universidad Centroamericana – Managua, Nicaragua

Contacts:  hdcauca@ns.uca.edu.ni

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