Where are we in the global poverty measurement? The human minimum model as a veritable option

dc.contributor.authorChimakonam, Jonathan Okeke
dc.contributor.emailJonathan.okeke@up.ac.zaen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-28T05:31:27Z
dc.date.available2020-05-28T05:31:27Z
dc.date.issued2020-06
dc.description.abstractA 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.en_ZA
dc.description.departmentPhilosophyen_ZA
dc.description.librarianhj2020en_ZA
dc.description.urihttps://journals.sagepub.com/home/jasen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationChimakonam 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.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn0021-9096 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1745-2538 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1177/0021909619885961
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/74761
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherSageen_ZA
dc.rights© The Author(s) 2019en_ZA
dc.subjectPovertyen_ZA
dc.subjectHuman minimumen_ZA
dc.subjectPoverty measureen_ZA
dc.subjectPhysical deprivationsen_ZA
dc.subjectPsychological deprivationsen_ZA
dc.titleWhere are we in the global poverty measurement? The human minimum model as a veritable optionen_ZA
dc.typePostprint Articleen_ZA

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