Announcement:
2012 HDCA conference to be held in Jakarta, Indonesia on 5-7th September Theme: "Revisiting Development: Do We Assess It Correctly?" For more information, visit the conference website.
Conference registration will be available beginning in March, 2012."
more information on our conference website
Launched in September 2004, the Human Development and Capability Association promotes research from
many disciplines on key problems including poverty, justice, well-being, and economics. Kaushik Basu
is the president of the HDCA. Amartya Sen was the Founding President of HDCA 2004 - 2006; Martha Nussbaum was President of HDCA 2006 - 2008.
Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA) shall promote high quality research in the interconnected areas of human development and capability. It shall be concerned with research in these areas across a broad range of topics where the human development and capability approaches have made and can make significant contributions, including the quality of life, poverty, justice, gender, development and environment inter alia. It shall further work in all disciplines - such as economics, philosophy, political theory, sociology and development studies - where such research is, or may be, pursued. While primarily an academic body, the Association shall bring together those primarily involved in academic work with practitioners who are involved in, or interested in, the application of research from the fields of human development and capability to the problems they face.
The Association holds annual or biannual conferences, maintains this webpage and listserv, supports training activities, and provide a forum in which collaborative research can emerge.
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