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5 Principles and good practices of poverty measurement

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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

Poverty > Research > Methodology.