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- noun Plural form of
functioning .
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So do the even more complex functionings of people and communities, from the "primitive" to the "advanced."
Bill Shireman: What I Learned from My Dead Grandfather Bill Shireman 2010
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To accomplish this Sen has functionings: outcomes that people desire, and capabilities: the sets of functionings that a person can currently achieve.
Development: A Case for Human-Centered Economics « Beki's Blog (there's an original name) 2010
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The goal is to provide more capabilities that will in turn let people reach more of their desired functionings.
Development: A Case for Human-Centered Economics « Beki's Blog (there's an original name) 2010
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So do the even more complex functionings of people and communities, from the "primitive" to the "advanced."
Bill Shireman: What I Learned from My Dead Grandfather Bill Shireman 2010
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The main impact of Keynesian economic stimuli is to increase debt; raise future tax rates and distort the normal functionings of economic markets and personal and corporate decision making.
Think Progress » Pawlenty Falsely Claims ‘Most Credible Economists Say’ Stimulus Is ‘Not Working’ 2010
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So do the even more complex functionings of people and communities, from the "primitive" to the "advanced."
Bill Shireman: Science, Religion, and Sustainability: Lessons from My Grandfather Bill Shireman 2010
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It destroys the individual's "capabilities and functionings" for life.
Archive 2009-09-01 Daniel Little 2009
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It destroys the individual's "capabilities and functionings" for life.
Poverty, growth, and sustainability Daniel Little 2009
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In a healthy human body, there is a marvelous correlation of these inter-functionings.
Psychosynthesis: Height Psychology — Discovering the self and the Self William Harryman 2009
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The body's functionings are a necessary machinery or instrumentation for the movements of this mental Inhabitant; it is only by setting the corporeal instrument in motion that the Conscious Being emerging, evolving in it can transmit its mind formations, will formations and turn them into a physical manifestation of itself in Matter.
The major Truth is that mind determines body Tusar N Mohapatra 2008
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