No Small Hope: The Basic Goods Imperative

Reinert, Kenneth A.

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“…This is in contrast to the capabilities approach, as discussed earlier, and to subjective approaches that view individuals' preferences as necessary for defining well-being [20]. Our approach follows and builds on the minimalist basic goods approach of Kenneth Reinert, which appeals to both objectivist and subjectivist traditions and is particularly appropriate for assessing development policy [21].…”

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“…Reinert refers to Griffin's definition of basic needs "as what we need to survive, to be healthy, to avoid harm, to function properly" [25]. Along with education, these categories comprise the elements of other formulations of "basic needs" [21]. Clothing, while included in Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 25), is in fact not consistently present in detailed accounts of basic needs or poverty indices.…”

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“Decent Living” Emissions: A Conceptual Framework

Rao

Baer

2012

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Abstract:There is very little elaboration in literature of the phrase "equitable access to sustainable development" that is referenced in the Cancun Agreement on climate change. We interpret this at a minimum as people's right to a decent living standard, which gives rise to claims by countries to an exemption from mitigation for the energy and emissions needed to provide a decent life to all. We elaborate a conceptual framework for a comprehensive quantification of such an energy requirement, including the energy required to build out infrastructure to support these living standards. We interpret decent living as the consumption by households of a set of basic goods including adequate nutrition, shelter, health care, education, transport, refrigeration, television and mobile phones. We develop universal indicators for these activities and their infrastructure requirements, and specify a methodology to convert these to energy requirements using energy input-output analysis. Our main recommendations include estimating bottom-up, country-specific energy and emissions requirements, incorporating a minimum for methane emissions, and using international benchmarks at the sector level to encourage the reduction of countries' energy and emissions intensity.

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“Decent Living” Emissions: A Conceptual Framework

Rao

Baer

2012

Sustainability

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“…It has further been argued that correcting under-provision of the material foundations necessary to fulfil basic human needs through expanded access to infrastructure for, inter alia, water, sanitation, electricity, telephony, education, and healthcare, should be regarded as one of the central aims of public policy (Jakob and Edenhofer, 2014). This view is consistent with a broader view in social policy of a universal entitlement to basic goods (Reinert, 2011).…”

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Access to infrastructure services: Global trends and drivers

2017

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Infrastructure services are essential to human development. Yet, the drivers of service access at a global scale remain largely unexplored. This paper presents trends and global patterns in access to water, sanitation, electricity, and telephony services. Using a panel data set from 1990-2010, we empirically explore plausible determinants of access rates to key infrastructure services. Although per-capita GDP is correlated with access rates, access still varies significantly at comparable income levels. Much of this variation is explained by differences in population density. Access levels are higher for urban areas and highest for water, followed by sanitation, electricity, and telephony.

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“…The capabilities approach or human development perspective emphasizes peoples' abilities to achieve certain desired outcomes in the realm of “doing” and “being,” such as avoiding premature mortality or being literate (e.g., Nussbaum, ; Sen, ). The basic goods approach emphasizes the provision of basic goods and services as key ingredients of human well‐being and argues that a focus on these determinants is more helpful than a focus on outcomes (e.g., Reinert, ).…”

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Food Security as Basic Goods Provision

Reinert¹

2015

World Med & Health Policy

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Food security is a central aspect of human well‐being. Given current trends in population, climate change, water availability, and conflict, however, food security is under threat for hundreds of millions of people. This article will argue that we can helpfully assess food security through the lens of basic goods provision. The basic goods approach is a type of development ethics that emphasizes the role of basic goods and services as prerequisites for well‐being and subsistence rights fulfillment. The article summarizes this version of development ethics and then focuses on food security as one important type of basic goods provision.

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No Small Hope: The Basic Goods Imperative

Cited by 20 publications

References 36 publications

“Decent Living” Emissions: A Conceptual Framework

“Decent Living” Emissions: A Conceptual Framework

Access to infrastructure services: Global trends and drivers

Food Security as Basic Goods Provision

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