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No Small Hope: The Basic Goods Imperative

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This paper argues in favor of a basic goods approach to outcomes assessment in development policy analysis. It contrasts the basic goods approach with the utility-of-consumption and capabilities approaches and argues, on a number of grounds, that it is a more relevant and appropriate framework. The dimensions of the basic goods approach analyzed include a common, minimalist character, sense of justice, subjectivist-objectivist considerations, the human condition, relationship to policy space, and the theoretical and empirical role of basic needs. Taken as a whole, these perspectives suggest that the basic goods approach offers key advantages not found in the two relevant alternatives.

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  • Kenneth Reinert, 2011. "No Small Hope: The Basic Goods Imperative," Review of Social Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 69(1), pages 55-76.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rsocec:v:69:y:2011:i:1:p:55-76
    DOI: 10.1080/00346760802714875
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    1. Gasper, D.R., 1996. "Needs and basic needs : a clarification of meanings, levels and different streams of work," ISS Working Papers - General Series 18952, International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam (ISS), The Hague.
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