The Analysis and Critique of Amartya Sen's Approach to Development

The main hypothesis of Amartya Sen in his famous book "Development as Freedom" is that the private freedom should be recognized for overcoming the problem of development. According to Sen's liberal approach, the freedom is both the tool and the end of development. Essentially development is the process of extending the actual freedoms such as increasing longevity and life expectancy and in fact the increasing of the quality of life. Several criticisms come to this approach: the inconsistency between the essential characters of Sen's approach to development such as the instrumental rationality and freedom. Also, the Sen's claims that there are positive relationship between democracy and development and the negative relationship between population and development are doubtful and has been criticized. Since the Sen's approach has not no predetermined and essential deontological requirement except freedom itself, consequently is inconsistent with the deontological systems such as religion. Finally, the historical and structural relationship between individual and nations hasn't been seriously concerned