Douglas A. Hicks

The Inequality-Adjusted Human Development Index: A Constructive Proposal

Abstract This paper proposes a method to incorporate a concern for distributional inequalities of income, education, and longevity into the framework of the Human Development Index (HDI), as it is presently designed by the United Nations Development Programme. The paper constructs Gini coefficients, for a set of 20 developing countries, measuring inequalities in annual income, educational attainment, and life-span attainment. These calculations are combined with data from the HDI to produce an Inequality-Adjusted Human Development Index (IAHDI). The implications of this proposed index for evaluating and promoting development are considered.

Gender, Discrimination, and Capability: Insights from Amartya Sen

This essay critically examines economist and philosopher Amartya Sen’s writings as a potential resource in religious ethicists’ efforts to analyze discrimination against girls and women and to address their well-being and agency. Delineating how Sen’s discussions of “missing women” and “gender and cooperative conflict” fit within his “capability approach” to economic and human development, the article explores how Sen’s methodology employs empirical analysis toward normative ends. Those ends expand the capability of girls and women to function in all aspects of their society. It concludes with a discussion of ways to engage Sen’s work within religious ethics.

Leadership and Global Justice

Douglas A. Hicks & Thad Williamson Introduction * Gillian Brock Global Justice and Leadership Challenges: How Do We Overcome the Difficulties Involved in Realizing or Advancing Global Justice? * Mathias Risse Justice, Accountability, and the WTO * David A. Crocker Democratic Leadership, Citizenship, and Social Justice * Daniel K. Finn Power, Leadership, and the Struggle Against Government Corruption * Steve Vanderheiden Leadership, Moral Authority, and Global Climate Change * Simon Caney Global Justice, Climate Change, and Human Rights * Jennifer Prah Ruger Global Health Justice * Andrea Sangiovanni Justice and the Free Movement of Persons: Educational Mobility in the European Union and the United States*Waheed Hussain Filling the Gap: Political Consumerism in a World of Weak States * Rebecca Todd Peters Examining the Value of Solidarity as a Moral Foundation for Poverty Alleviation * Thad Williamson and Douglas Hicks Concluding Essay

Prosperity, Theology, and Economy

The chapters in this volume raise fascinating and important questions for understanding the intersection of prosperity, theology, and the economy. Applying sophisticated analyses from theology, biblical studies, ethics, cultural studies, anthropology, and the sociology of religion, they together provide multiple angles of vision upon Pentecostalism and the ideas and practices of prosperity theology. The authors raise points of tension and possible contradiction within this field; and, indeed, the chapters themselves represent divergent perspectives.

Leadership toward Global Justice: Conceptual and Practical Challenges

Advocates for the idea of global justice typically make at least one of the following (not mutually exclusive) claims concerning the moral obligations of citizens of the affluent, developed world: First, that we, whether directly or via our governments or other institutions, have a moral responsibility to make a good-faith effort to relieve extreme human suffering in the world, no matter what its causes and no matter where in the world it takes place.