ABSTRACT
Since writing Inequality Reexamined, Amartya Sen's focus has increasingly been on promoting human wellbeing and reducing human deprivation. Specifically, he has written extensively on issues of human development, democracy and justice on a global level as well as in specific contexts such as his country of birth, India. Sen's core thesis of capabilities has contributed to the founding of the Human Development school of thought-for which the Capability Approach underpins most scholarly enquiry. Human development has been taken up by other development scholars throughout institutions such as the UNDP and their annual Human Development reports dating back to 1990. Firstly, it puts humans in the centre of all development processes (unlike the growth paradigm which has capital at its centre). All of these initiatives are particularly important in keeping Sen's main arguments in Inequality Reexamined on the table.
