Synthesis
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
Standard
Synthesis. / Arndt, Channing; Mahrt, Kristi; Tarp, Finn.
Measuring Poverty and Wellbeing in Developing Countries. ed. / Channing Arndt; Finn Tarp. Oxford University Press, 2017. p. 269-273.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
Harvard
APA
Vancouver
Author
Bibtex
}
RIS
TY - CHAP
T1 - Synthesis
AU - Arndt, Channing
AU - Mahrt, Kristi
AU - Tarp, Finn
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - This synthesis chapter seeks to draw general lessons from the case studies presented in the book. It does not include a review or summary of each chapter. Instead, we revert to themes that emerged from earlier in the book. Specifically, we argue that appropriately assessing living standards is challenging, and focus on the different nature of the challenges for consumption poverty line estimation and multidimensional poverty measurement. The six case studies uniformly indicate that the process of drawing appropriate absolute poverty lines is not straightforward and cannot be done mechanically. This is so principally due to five key factors: heterogeneity, volatility, vulnerability, data, and theory. The first three factors are usefully grouped together. In all of the case countries considered, poor people are heterogeneous, frequently live in environments with strikingly high levels of volatility, and are, almost by definition, vulnerable to shocks.
AB - This synthesis chapter seeks to draw general lessons from the case studies presented in the book. It does not include a review or summary of each chapter. Instead, we revert to themes that emerged from earlier in the book. Specifically, we argue that appropriately assessing living standards is challenging, and focus on the different nature of the challenges for consumption poverty line estimation and multidimensional poverty measurement. The six case studies uniformly indicate that the process of drawing appropriate absolute poverty lines is not straightforward and cannot be done mechanically. This is so principally due to five key factors: heterogeneity, volatility, vulnerability, data, and theory. The first three factors are usefully grouped together. In all of the case countries considered, poor people are heterogeneous, frequently live in environments with strikingly high levels of volatility, and are, almost by definition, vulnerable to shocks.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - living standards
KW - consumption poverty estimation
KW - absolute poverty lines
KW - multidimensional poverty measurement
KW - first-order dominance
U2 - 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198744801.003.0016
DO - 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198744801.003.0016
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9780198744801
SP - 269
EP - 273
BT - Measuring Poverty and Wellbeing in Developing Countries
A2 - Arndt, Channing
A2 - Tarp, Finn
PB - Oxford University Press
ER -
ID: 146212418