Participation, Pluralism and Perceptions of Poverty

Robert Chambers

Chapter 8 in The Many Dimensions of Poverty, 2013, pp 140-164 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The words ‘poverty’ and ‘dimension’ are each used with many meanings. In this chapter, the meanings given to them are as follows: Poverty includes bad conditions and/or experience of life. This means more than simply material poverty or lack. It is the meaning implied by the statement with which the World Development Report (WDR) 2000/01 Attacking Poverty opens ‘Poverty is pronounced deprivation in wellbeing’ (World Bank 2000: 15). ‘Multidimensional poverty’ is then the same as ‘multidimensional deprivation’.2 Well-being is the experience of good quality of life, and ill-being, its opposite, the experience of bad quality of life. This applies especially where material and other deprivations and disadvantages interact and reinforce each other (see Figures 8.1–8.4).

Keywords: Food Insecure; Poor People; Participatory Approach; United Nations Development Programme; Gender Relation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230592407_8

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