Identifying and Measuring Chronic Poverty: Beyond Monetary Measures?

Hulme, David; McKay, Andy

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“…Growing intra-urban inequality is made evident in the research by Jamal and Weeks (1993), Braun et al (1993), Hulme and McKay (2005) and Montgomery (2004). In fact, the differences in terms of food access and consumption between income groups are particularly stark (FAO 2001, Maxwell 1999).…”

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“…Standard poverty measures do not typically account for the living conditions and levels of insecurity experienced by those living in urban squatter communities. More recently, some studies have indicated that the urban sector's share of the developing world's poor is rising and that the poor are urbanizing faster than the population as a whole (Hulme andMcKay 2005, UN 2008). …”

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Food Security, Gender, and Occupational Choice among Urban Low-Income Households

Floro

Swain

2013

World Development

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Rising urban poverty and food insecurity are serious concerns in developing countries today. Urban livelihoods and coping strategies remain poorly understood however. This paper examines the response of female and male household members in marginalized urban (predominantly squatter) areas to the risk of food shortage in terms of occupational choice. More specifically, we use probit analyses to investigate whether household vulnerability or the need to provide self-insurance for food security, alongside gender roles, influence a worker's choice of enterprise activity. We focus our investigation on self-employed women and men using a data set drawn from the 1496 individual sample in 14 urban squatter communities in Bolivia, Ecuador, Philippines and Thailand. Our findings show that selfemployed women in households facing higher risk of food insecurity are likely to engage in food-related enterprise activities and this is especially true in Philippines and Thailand. This suggests the role of occupational choice in in helping urban squatter households in mitigating the risk of food shortage through the selection of an income-generating activity that allows the direct use of unsold inventories for food consumption. Keywords: food security, self-employment, occupational choice, urban informal sector 1 The authors gratefully acknowledge the helpful comments and suggestions of Thomas Hungerford and the participants at 2009 IAFFE conference (Boston) , the Centre for Microfinance seminar (Luxembourg), the IFMR seminar( Chennai India) and the Department of Economics seminar, Uppsala University.

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Food Security, Gender, and Occupational Choice among Urban Low-Income Households

Floro

Swain

2013

World Development

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“…In other literatures, scholars have considered assets such as psychological (Luthans, Luthans, & Luthans, 2004), productive (Moser, 2007), navigational, linguistic, and resistant (Yosso, 2005), among others. Multidimensional frameworks addressing the role of such diverse capital resources offer an important avenue for advancing scholarship on low-income individuals (see Emery & Flora, 2006;Hulme & McKay, 2005;…”

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An Asset-Based Approach to Volunteering

Benenson

Stagg

2015

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

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Research demonstrates that volunteering provides many benefits for individuals and communities. However, research has not adequately addressed the potential significance of volunteering as a mechanism for low-income individuals to improve their own lives and support their communities. To account for the benefits volunteering could generate, research must shift from an emphasis on what low-income volunteers lack to an approach that uncovers the strengths and wealth present among lowincome volunteers and their communities. The purpose of this article is to present a theoretically informed asset-based framework for analyzing volunteerism research. Through an examination of four nonfinancial assets-social capital, human capital, cultural capital, and political capital-we illustrate how an asset-based approach offers an opportunity to explore the ways low-income individuals could build and leverage assets through volunteering. Implications for future research that frames volunteering as an asset-building strategy are considered.

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“…Equally important in querying the full consumer sovereignty assumption is the fact that intrahousehold distribution is not taken into consideration, and income and resources are usually measured at the household level (Hulme and McKay, 2008). Assuming that households with sufficient resources to cover the basic needs of all their members actually use them to do so, implies that either all household members have equal power (or at least enough power to secure the fulfilment of their own basic needs) or that there is perfect solidarity among the household members.…”

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Child Deprivation, Multidimensional Poverty and Monetary Poverty in Europe

Neubourg¹,

Bradshaw²,

Chzhen³

et al. 2012

Innocenti Working Papers

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The Innocenti Research Centre (IRC) was established in Florence, Italy in 1988 to strengthen the research capability of the United Nations Children"s Fund (UNICEF) and to support its advocacy for children worldwide. The Centre helps to identify and research current and future areas of UNICEF"s work. Its prime objectives are to improve international understanding of issues relating to children"s rights and to help facilitate full implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in both developing and industrialized countries.IRC is the dedicated research hub of the UNICEF Office of Research, which provides global leadership for UNICEF"s strategic research agenda around children. The Office aims to set out a comprehensive framework for research and knowledge within the organization, and for all those working on global children"s issues. Through strengthening research partnerships with leading academic institutions and development networks, the Office will create greater synergies, and will leverage additional resources and influence in support of efforts towards policy reform in favour of children.IRC"s publications are contributions to a global debate on child rights issues and include a wide range of opinions. For that reason, the Centre may produce publications that do not necessarily reflect UNICEF policies or approaches on some topics. The views expressed are those of the authors and/or editors and are published by the Centre in order to stimulate further dialogue on child rights.The Centre collaborates with its host institution in Florence, the Istituto degli Innocenti, in selected areas of work. Core funding for the Centre is provided by the Government of Italy, while financial support for specific projects is also provided by other governments, international institutions and private sources, including UNICEF National Committees.For further information and to download this or other IRC publications, please visit the IRC website at www.unicef-irc.org. Abstract. Together with the Innocenti Working paper on relative income poverty of children in rich countries (Bradshaw et al, 2012), this paper on multidimensional child poverty and child deprivation forms the background studies on which the Innocenti Report Card 10 is based (Measuring Child Poverty: New league tables of child poverty in the world"s rich countries). The paper focuses on child deprivation in Europe and studies the degree to which it is experienced by children in 29 countries using a child specific deprivation scale. The paper discusses the construction of a child deprivation scale and estimates a European Child Deprivation Index for the 29 countries using 14 specific child related variables made available by the child module of the EU-SILC 2009 survey. The 29 countries are ranked according to the degree of child deprivation: the results show considerable differences between the countries. The (non-)overlap between child deprivation and child monetary poverty is considerable but limited. In general the results indicate where policy int...

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Identifying and Measuring Chronic Poverty: Beyond Monetary Measures?

Cited by 66 publications

References 42 publications

Food Security, Gender, and Occupational Choice among Urban Low-Income Households

Food Security, Gender, and Occupational Choice among Urban Low-Income Households

An Asset-Based Approach to Volunteering

Child Deprivation, Multidimensional Poverty and Monetary Poverty in Europe

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