Contents

        List of figures

        Acknowledgments

  1    Introduction

        Part I: Development ethics

  2    Agreements, controversies, and challenges

  3    Ethics and development theory‐practice

        Part II: The capability approach: ethical foundations

  4    Critique of alternatives

  5    Agency, functioning, and capability

  6    Evaluating capabilities and functionings

        Part III: Strengthening and applying the capability approach

  7    Agency, responsibility, and consumption

  8    Hunger, capability, and agency‐oriented development

        Part IV: Deliberative democracy, participation, and globalization

  9    The capability approach and deliberative democracy

10    Deliberative participation in local development

11    Development ethics, democracy, and globalization

        Index of names

        Index of subjects