• 50% of Indians don’t have proper shelter.
• 70% don’t have access to decent toilets (which inspires a multitude of bacteria to host their own disease party).
• 35% of households don’t have a nearby water source.
• 85% of villages don’t have a secondary school (how can this be the same government claiming 9% annual growth?).
• Over 40% of these same villages don’t have proper roads connecting them. (2)
After having a quick review of the Indian case, I will talk about the story of a poor Indian lady, Nussbaum tells us in her book to illustrate how is using capability measures instead of income measures of poverty is in more advantages.
Martha C. Nussbaum started her book “ Creating Capabilities “ with two important questions:
1. What is each person actually able to do and to be?
2. What real opportunities are available to them?
In trying to give an answer of these questions, I will tell the story of that poor lady, her name was Vasanti, she was in her thirties and was married to a gambler and alcoholic husband, he spent all the household money to get drunk and when the money run out, he took the cash payment that was paid by the state as a population policy, therefore ,as all the money run out Vasanti became with no money to live, moreover she has no children to help her, she was unusually burdened, and as her husband
• 70% don’t have access to decent toilets (which inspires a multitude of bacteria to host their own disease party).
• 35% of households don’t have a nearby water source.
• 85% of villages don’t have a secondary school (how can this be the same government claiming 9% annual growth?).
• Over 40% of these same villages don’t have proper roads connecting them. (2)
After having a quick review of the Indian case, I will talk about the story of a poor Indian lady, Nussbaum tells us in her book to illustrate how is using capability measures instead of income measures of poverty is in more advantages.
Martha C. Nussbaum started her book “ Creating Capabilities “ with two important questions:
1. What is each person actually able to do and to be?
2. What real opportunities are available to them?
In trying to give an answer of these questions, I will tell the story of that poor lady, her name was Vasanti, she was in her thirties and was married to a gambler and alcoholic husband, he spent all the household money to get drunk and when the money run out, he took the cash payment that was paid by the state as a population policy, therefore ,as all the money run out Vasanti became with no money to live, moreover she has no children to help her, she was unusually burdened, and as her husband