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October 26, 2005
The reform agenda of the Cape York Institute for Policy and Leadership (CYI) in the areas
of welfare reform, economic development, governance, health reform, education support and youth development to overcome disadvantage and dysfunction of indigenous people in Cape York is based on the work of Amartya Sen, and seeks to integrate the essential ethical questions of enhancing freedoms and building capabilities of Cape York people. In this paper Noel Pearson says that:
As per expectations, capabilities in the Cape are currentlyin very poor condition. The particular value of using the capabilities framework is that it focuses attention on the fact that the key underlying cause of the poor state of capabilities is a lack of economic and social development, compounded by a system of delivery of services and income support that encourages passivity in its recipients. The Cape York reform agenda therefore needs to focus, at its core, on the issue of developing a real economy in Cape York.
How to do this when most in Cape York are on passive welfare in which the structure of income support payments have set up a poverty trap where perverse incentives encourage people towards welfare and away from real employment?
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