Amartya Sen's Capability Model for Analyzing Development Was Critical Because

question 81

Multiple Choice

Amartya Sen's Capability Model for analyzing development was critical because it showed:

• A) the importance of measures of development that go beyond GDP per capita
• B) how poor countries cannot develop without democracy
• C) how global climate change affected developing nations
• D) that current models in international development are just examples of neo-colonialism
• E) why people with relatively middle incomes could still have relatively high birth rates

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