Although Sen prioritises freedom over responsibility, the latter seems to be important for understanding one crucial aspect of the capability approach: individuals who have the capability to achieve essential functionings but choose not to do so or individuals who choose certain non-essential functionings cannot justify and sustain complains about essential functionings achievement-failure.
It stands to reason that raising male academic achievement is essential to raising labor productivity and, ultimately, living standards.
In most communities, students attend school every day because they are convinced that educational achievement is essential to their future success.
Research achievement is essential for promotion in most Chinese medical institutions, causing enormous pressure among clinicians.
Some on staff hailed the phone as the achievement of Essential's stated vision — to create a "lovemark" for Android smartphones, while others on staff found the device… inessential.
The distributive objective of the capability approach is to guarantee all individuals access to the basic abilities required for the achievement of essential functionings so that no one falls below the relevant baseline into what Sen calls a state of 'capability deprivation'.
We assessed achievement of essential midwifery competencies through direct observation, using a 10-station Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE).
Indeed, ensuring the attainment of standards for graduation, licensure, promotion, and other aspects of quality and achievement are essential to fulfilling our public obligations regarding medical and scientific practice.
A major focus of UNICEF's work over the months and years will be on implementing activities aimed at getting children back to learning and supporting key programmes ensuring quality of education to improve achievement of essential learning competencies.
Lastly and most importantly, being proud of your achievements is essential to success; I feel happy with what I've done in my career, for my country and my clubs and I feel a responsibility to pass this knowledge on to help others both on and off the pitch, which is why I'm so heavily involved with the Homeless World Cup.
