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instead of utility (happiness, desire-fulf lment or choice) or access to resources (income, commodities or
assets). Poverty, in this view, is understood as capability deprivation. The emphasis here is not only how
human beings actually function but on their having the capability, which is a practical choice, to function in
important ways if they so wish. This approach to human well-being emphasises the importance of freedom
of choice, individual heterogeneity and the multi-dimensional nature of welfare.
2.5 CONCLUSION
Questions about equality tend to generate ideological controversy. There is always a tendency to f nd an
alternative model of equality that can be embraced as intrinsically ...