Economic growth, inequality and poverty: a review in the light of the capability approach

In Amartya Sen's perspective, economic and human development and relatedconcepts such as poverty and inequality must be understood as a process of expansion or restriction of capabilities. Thus, it would be more appropriate to perceive poverty as a deprivation or a lack of minimum capabilities, and inequality as an inequitable distribution of basic capabilities. Thinking as such, we guarantee that the poverty or inequality threshold will consider, not only the possession of income and goods, but also the opportunities offered to people to convert these goods into actual well-being and therefore to carry out their life projects as they wish. By transposing the analysis of the well-being of the income space to the space of functionings and capabilities, this paper attempts to provide some elements of answer to the following question: What renewal brings the capability approach to understanding certain created by economic growth such as poverty and inequality? Under which circumstances would economic growth be "capacitating"