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Desarrollo y Sociedad
versión impresa ISSN 0120-3584
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GARCES VELASTEGUI, Pablo. Of ends and means: Development policy assessment with human development and multiple causality. Desarro. soc. [online]. 2019, n.83, pp.385-412. ISSN 0120-3584. https://doi.org/10.13043/dys.83.10.
Policy assessment often involves the study of outcomes and their causes. Development policy analyses have conventionally used an economistic perspective with a focus mainly on pecuniary indicators and the search for the one model of best fit. However, i) if development policy outcomes are ultimately to be assessed in terms of people’s quality of life; and, ii) if policies establish similar outcomes for different people in different contexts, alternative approaches seem required to study a policy’s ends and means. As such, this article advances the combined use of the Human Development and Capability Approach with fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis as a promising option. While the former, being a people-centred framework, can contribute to assess policy ends, the latter, enabling the study of multiple conjunctural causation, can shed light on the diverse means leading to them.
Palabras clave : Government policy; human development; set theory; causal analysis; comparative analysis.