Framework
Development as freedom
The question it answers
When a policymaker designs or assesses a development programme, what should progress be measured by beyond GDP if development means expanding people's real freedoms?
- Origin
- Sen, 2006
- Diagram type
- Hub diagram
- Level of analysis
- Industry

Diagram
Development as freedom
Development as expanding real freedoms
Economic facilities
Political freedoms
Social opportunities (education, health)
Protective security (safety nets)
Transparency guarantees
Sources
References
Listed A–Z by author surname, Harvard style. A source with a DOI links to https://doi.org/…; one without links to its page or says plainly that it has no DOI.
- Sen, A. (2006) ‘Development as freedom: an India perspective’, Indian Journal of Industrial Relations, 42(2), pp. 157–169.No DOIjstor.orgSource page