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Chimakonam, Jonathan Okeke
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2020-05-28T05:31:27Z |
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2020-05-28T05:31:27Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2020-06 |
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dc.description.abstract |
A dominant conception of poverty among many researchers is that it is a form of deprivation. There is, however, more focus on the idea of poverty as physical deprivation than there is on psychological deprivation. I argue that poverty is as much a psychological deprivation as it is a physical deprivation and propose a new index that explicitly takes the psychological into account in poverty measurement. I show that most extant literature tends to focus more on physical deprivations which poverty causes. I discuss some poverty indices which are employed to measure levels of poverty and highlight their inadequacy. Employing the conversational method, I tap into Odera Oruka’s ideas to offer the Human Minimum Measure (HMM) as a model that might also be desirable if the reality of psychological deprivation is taken seriously. |
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dc.description.department |
Philosophy |
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dc.description.librarian |
hj2020 |
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https://journals.sagepub.com/home/jas |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Chimakonam J.O. Where Are We in the Global Poverty Measurement? The Human Minimum Model as a Veritable Option. Journal of Asian and African Studies. 2020;55(4):509-521. doi:10.1177/0021909619885961. |
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dc.identifier.issn |
0021-9096 (print) |
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dc.identifier.issn |
1745-2538 (online) |
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dc.identifier.other |
10.1177/0021909619885961 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2263/74761 |
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dc.language.iso |
en |
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dc.publisher |
Sage |
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dc.rights |
© The Author(s) 2019 |
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dc.subject |
Poverty |
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Human minimum |
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dc.subject |
Poverty measure |
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dc.subject |
Physical deprivations |
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dc.subject |
Psychological deprivations |
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dc.title |
Where are we in the global poverty measurement? The human minimum model as a veritable option |
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dc.type |
Postprint Article |
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