ABSTRACT
The capability approach has emerged as an influential framework for the conceptualization of human well-being. This chapter investigates how the capability approach can and should be applied to the context of development, and in particular the task of setting development agendas, and what kinds of specifications to the framework that need to be made in the process. The chapter presents a hybrid approach, which holds that a development agenda should focus on both basic and advanced capabilities or functionings, and considers four issues that need to be taken into account when setting a development agenda based on the human development and capability framework.
