Different Approaches to Identify the Poor: Do They converge?

Rishi Kumar ()
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Rishi Kumar: BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus

Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2018, vol. 139, issue 2, No 9, 589-610

Abstract: Abstract In this paper, the convergence among four main approaches (monetary, capability, social exclusion and participatory) of identifying the poor and estimating poverty has been calculated based on data collected from Kesla block of Hoshangabad district of Madhya Pradesh state in India. The results suggest that there are divergences among these methods indicting that one method cannot be substituted for others.

Keywords: Poverty measurement; Monetary approach; Capability approach; Social exclusion; Participatory approach; Convergence; Alkire-Foster methodology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/s11205-017-1729-7

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