From Poverty to Well-Being and Human Flourishing (Volume 1) : Integrated Conceptualisation and Measurement of Economic Poverty / Julio Boltvinik.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boltvinik, Julio, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poverty--Research--Methodology.

Poverty.

Well-being.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, England : Bristol University Press, [2024]

Summary:

This book offers a holistic view of Julio Boltvinik's vast and important work on poverty conceptualisation and measurement. It provides the foundations, application and empirical examples of Boltvinik's Integrated Poverty Measurement Method, which could potentially transform poverty narratives globally as it has done in Mexico.

Contents:

Front Cover

From Poverty to Well-Being and Human Flourishing: Integrated Conceptualisation and Measurement of Economic Poverty

Copyright information

Dedication

Table of Contents

List of figures and tables

List of abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Introduction

Part I Conceptualising poverty

1 Households' reproduction logic, their well-being sources, and concepts of needs and poverty

1.1 Households' reproduction schemes and articulation with enterprises and government

1.2 Well-being sources (WBS) and resources

1.3 Central definitions: needs and poverty

The concept of HN in philosophy

Definitions of poverty and needs in everyday life

On the nature of needs

2 Critique of the Political Economy of Poverty (CPEP), Part 1: on different answers to the question of the constitutive elements of the good/full life

2.1 Sen's and Rawls's critiques of utilitarianism: Sen's critique of opulence and primary goods approaches

2.2 Internal and external critique of Neoclassical Consumer Theory

2.3 Sen's and Nussbaum's capabilities approaches: a critique

2.4 Synthesis of my New Paradigm of Human Poverty and Flourishing

3 Critique of the Political Economy of Poverty, Part 2: conceptual maps and definitions

3.1 Critique of the dominant definitions of poverty in the PEP: comparison with the definitions of poverty in my New Paradigm

3.2 The narrow conceptual map of the PEP compared with the broader one of my New Approach to Poverty and Human Flourishing (NAPHF) or New Paradigm (NP)

Needs and satisfiers

WBS or resources

The conceptual map of the NAPHF

The conceptual map of the PEP

4 Principles and good practices of poverty conceptualisation

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Principles and good practices: a complete panorama

PPC1: the principle of totality.

GPPC1: the good practice of adopting a holistic approach

PPC2: the principle of sensitivity

GPPC2: the good practice of adopting a context-sensitive and change-sensitive approach to poverty

PPC3: the principle of the comparability of objective well-being

GPPC3: the good practice of adopting an approach that conceives poverty in terms of OWB

PPC4: the principle of the entangled nature of the concept of poverty

GPPC4: the good practice of basing the poverty concept on informed value judgements

PPC5: the principle of dignity as a central criterion for defining poverty threshold(s)

GPPC5: the good practice of conceiving poverty concepts and measurement procedures as promoters of human rights and optimal pub

PPC6: the Pr of P as part of the SLA

GPPC6: the good practice of including all relevant dimensions of living standards in the conceptualisation and measurement of poverty

Part II Measuring poverty

5 Principles and good practices of poverty measurement

5.1 Poverty measurement

PPM1 and PPM2: principles of diminishing marginal WB and the existence of a maximum WB

GPPM1: the good practice of applying PPM1 and PPM2

PPM3: the principle of the minimal error

GPPM2: the good practice of minimising errors

PPM4: the principle of replicable full cardinalisation (generalised dichotomisation)

GPMM3: the good practice of cardinalising indicators

PPM5: the principle of symmetry

GPPM4: the good practice of full conceptual and measurement consistency

PPM6 and GPPM5: the principle and good practice of full normativity

6 A typology of poverty measurement methods: a critique of direct and indirect poverty measurement methods

6.1 A systematic typology: comparison with Gordon et al.'s and Ringen's views of poverty measurement methods

6.2 On non-normative Poverty Measurement Methods.

6.3 Description and critique of normative (and semi-normative) direct and indirect methods

PL: NFB

PL: GNB or budget approach

PL: subjective PL

'Objective' PL

Income-time poverty

UBN: restricted original variant

UBN improved variant (UBN-IV)

Townsend's deprivation index

Deprivation index, improved variant

Enforced Lack of Socially Perceived Necessities (ELSPN)

Acute Multidimensional Poverty Index (AMPI)

Individual Deprivation Measure (IDM)

Revealed or objective UBN thresholds

7 Combined methods of poverty measurement

7.1 Description and critique of combined methods included in the typology

IPMM, original variant (OV-IPMM)

IPMM, improved variant (IV-IPMM)

Social Progress Index - Lifetime Deprivation (SPI-LTD)

The truly poor

Consensual truly poor

Dual cut-off counting

Modified truly poor

7.2 Prevailing disagreement on the poverty criterion among combined methods

8 The Integrated Poverty Measurement Method (IPMM)

8.1 The genesis of the IPMM

8.2 General description of the IPMM

8.3 Detailed description of IPMM poverty indicators, Part 1: UBN

8.3.1 Housing quality and space (QSDwAJ.)

Housing quality

Wall scores (WJ..)

Roof scores (RJ)

Floor scores (FJ)

Composite indicator of housing quality adequacy (HQAJ.)

Adequacy of space availability

Equivalent bedrooms (EB) per household

Normative EB per HH (for 2+ members)

Integrated indicator of housing quality and space adequacy (HQSAJ)

8.3.2 Durable goods

8.3.3 Sanitary services

Water provision (WP)

Drainage service

Consolidated indicator of sanitary achievement (SAJ)

8.3.4 Communication services (CS)

Telephone (fixed line and/or mobile) (TlJ)

Internet access/connection (IAJ)

8.3.5 Energy adequacy (EnAJ)

Electricity access and quality indicator

Lightbulb achievement.

Electricity access and quality achievement indicator (ElLBJA)

Home-cooking fuel (CFJ)

Domestic energy achievement indicator (EnAJ)

8.3.6 Educational achievement indicator (EAI)

Indicators of attendance, years of schooling, and literacy

Individual and HH educational achievement/deprivation indicators

8.3.7 Health Services (HS) and Social Security (SS)

HS achievement (HSAIJ) and SS achievement (SSAIJ)

8.3.8 UBN composite indicator

8.4 Detailed description of IPMM poverty indicators, Part 2: income and time

8.4.1 Income (Y)

PL definition

Achievement indicator of HH available Y

New methodology for measuring time poverty

The integrated indicator of IPMM

9 Aggregate poverty measures (APM)

9.1 Description and critique

9.2 Critique of aggregate measures sensitive to distribution among the poor

9.3 A new aggregate measure of poverty sensitive to social inequality

9.4 A final note

Epilogue

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4473-6850-9

1-4473-6849-5

OCLC:

1414456190