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Subjective well-being poverty versus income poverty and capabilities poverty?
- Abstract:
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The conventional approach of economists to the measurement of poverty in poor countries is to use measures of income or consumption. This has been challenged by those who favour broader criteria for poverty and its avoidance. These include the fulfilment of ‘basic needs’, the ‘capabilities’ to be and to do things of intrinsic worth, and safety from insecurity and vulnerability. This paper asks: to what extent are these different concepts measurable, to what extent are they competing and to wh...
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- Publisher:
- GPRG
- Series:
- Working Paper Series
- Publication date:
- 2004-12-01
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- Language:
- English
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- oai:economics.ouls.ox.ac.uk:14079
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- 2011-08-15
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- Copyright date:
- 2004
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