Where are we in the global poverty measurement? The human minimum model as a veritable option
dc.contributor.author | Chimakonam, Jonathan Okeke | |
dc.contributor.email | Jonathan.okeke@up.ac.za | en_ZA |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-05-28T05:31:27Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-05-28T05:31:27Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-06 | |
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. | en_ZA |
dc.description.department | Philosophy | en_ZA |
dc.description.librarian | hj2020 | en_ZA |
dc.description.uri | https://journals.sagepub.com/home/jas | en_ZA |
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. | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.issn | 0021-9096 (print) | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1745-2538 (online) | |
dc.identifier.other | 10.1177/0021909619885961 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/74761 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_ZA |
dc.publisher | Sage | en_ZA |
dc.rights | © The Author(s) 2019 | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Poverty | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Human minimum | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Poverty measure | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Physical deprivations | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Psychological deprivations | en_ZA |
dc.title | Where are we in the global poverty measurement? The human minimum model as a veritable option | en_ZA |
dc.type | Postprint Article | en_ZA |