ABSTRACT

An attempt has been made in this paper to discuss the basic ideas of the Capability Approach; To show how it has been applied by many scholars to study the various problems relating to human well being as well as to evaluate the existing public policies; What are the recent trends or contribution of several scholars to the Capability Approach and to discuss the various criticisms of the Capability Approach.

Key words: Capability, scholars, human, public policies

“The primary goods approach seems to take little note of the diversity of human beings… If people were basically very similar then an index of primary goods might be quite a good way of judging advantage. But, in fact people seem to have very different needs varying with health, longevity, climate conditions, temperament and even body size… So, what is being involved is not merely ignoring a few hard cases, but overlooking very widespread and real differences”.