Inter-Country Comparisons of Poverty Based on a Capability Approach

Reddy, Sanjay G.; Visaria, Sujata; Asali, Muhammad

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“…First, the capability theory has been predominantly theorizing from philosophical and conceptual reasoning, thus making it difficult to derive meaningful constructs and their relationships (Zheng and Walsham, 2008). Second, our study focuses on quality of life at an individual level, while capability theory is more appropriate when examining quality of life issues at a broader societal level such as inequality, poverty, and development (Reddy et al, 2006;Schischka et al, 2008). We refer the reader to Kuklys and Robeyns (2005), pp.…”

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IS Use and Quality of Life: A Conceptualization and Empirical Investigation

Techatassanasoontorn¹,

Tanvisuth²

2010

THCI

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Lorne Olfman was the accepting Senior Editor. This article was submitted on 7/5/2009 and accepted on 6/7/2010. It was with the authors 32 weeks for 2 revisions. The nature of IS use and its impacts in everyday life settings are not yet well understood. Drawing on quality of life theory and evidence from the IS acceptance and IS impacts research, this study conceptualizes the relationship between IS use and quality of life as a process that involves vertical and horizontal spillover effects. We empirically investigate this relationship in the context of basic IT use among socio-economically disadvantaged individuals. The research participants received their initial basic IT skill training from community technology centers. The context of our study is the Thai community technology centers supported by Microsoft Unlimited Potential grants. The results strongly support that there are vertical spillover and horizontal spillover mechanisms that relate IS use to domain-specific quality of life and overall quality of life. Implications for research and practice are discussed.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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IS Use and Quality of Life: A Conceptualization and Empirical Investigation

Techatassanasoontorn¹,

Tanvisuth²

2010

THCI

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“…As a consequence, researchers will often (implicitly) use the nutritional thresholds to derive benchmarks in other dimensions. At this point, we should introduce the equiproportionality assumption (Reddy et al ., , p. 12). Equiproportionality means that if “the reference population has a calorie content that falls below 2100 kcals by x per cent, … the reference population's shortfall in the expenditure necessary to achieve both the food and the non‐food expenditure requirements (for capability adequacy) is also x per cent.” In other words, this assumption postulates a perfect resonance between all basic functionings, so that one can derive the overall poverty status of a person or household on the basis of information on only one dimension.…”

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“…Indeed, as Reddy et al . (, p. 9) have put forward, “it is difficult to make the case that the ‘$1/day’ and ‘$2/day’ international poverty lines reflect the cost of achieving the real requirements of human beings.” Probably in response to some of these critiques, Ravallion and Chen () recently developed a weakly relative measure of poverty, which can be used as another benchmark to evaluate progress in terms of global poverty reduction (Ravallion, ). This more ambitious benchmark allows for the inclusion of social needs prevailing in each country.…”

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Poverty Lines as Context Deflators: A Method to Account for Regional Diversity with Application to the Democratic Republic of Congo

Marivoet

Herdt

2013

Review of Income and Wealth

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This paper proposes a particular methodology to render budget data more comparable over highly diverse regions. More specifically, a set of regional poverty lines will be derived and employed as deflators to correct household expenditures for spatial differences in prices and needs. The quality of these deflators depends on the extent to which the underlying poverty lines adhere to the principles of consistency and specificity. Central to reconciling both principles in practice is our pursuit for austerity in setting poverty thresholds as well as the view that differences in social norms mainly reflect differences in social inclusion needs. The particularity of the proposed method compared to standard practice lies in the combination of: (i) the pronounced subdivision in socio‐economic strata; (ii) the use of a differential calorie threshold per sector; (iii) the introduction of protein intake; (iv) the derivation of a minimal house rent; and (v) the use of an austere non‐food/non‐housing allowance. The impact of this method is illustrated using a budget survey of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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“…These national poverty lines would be expressed in national currency but one could still aggregate the poor across countries in a consistent fashion if the poverty lines were consistently derived. This proposal was made by Reddy, Visaria and Attali (2008) and later by Klasen (2013Klasen ( , 2013b and Klasen et al (2015). One advantage is that one would avoid the problems associated with the PPP exchange rates.…”

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An Asian poverty line? Issues and options

Klasen¹

2016

The Asian ‘Poverty Miracle’

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Inter-Country Comparisons of Poverty Based on a Capability Approach

Cited by 15 publications

References 8 publications

IS Use and Quality of Life: A Conceptualization and Empirical Investigation

IS Use and Quality of Life: A Conceptualization and Empirical Investigation

Poverty Lines as Context Deflators: A Method to Account for Regional Diversity with Application to the Democratic Republic of Congo

An Asian poverty line? Issues and options

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