Poverty as a System: Human Contestability Approach to Poverty Measurement

Autor:	Parvesh K. Chopra, Gopal K. Kanji
Rok vydání:	2007
Předmět:	Statistics and Probability Public economics Poverty business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Distribution (economics) Latent variable Structural equation modeling Head count ratio Excellence Economics Measuring poverty Statistics Probability and Uncertainty Construct (philosophy) business media_common
Zdroj:	Journal of Applied Statistics. 34:1135-1158
ISSN:	1360-0532 0266-4763
DOI:	10.1080/02664760701619142
Popis:	Since Sen's (1976) paper on poverty measurement, a substantial literature, both theoretical and empirical, has emerged. There have been several recent efforts to drive poverty measures based on different approaches and axioms. These poverty indices are based on head count ratio, poverty gaps and distribution of income. These are very narrow in approach and suffer from several drawbacks. However, the purpose of the present paper is to introduce a new poverty measure based on a holistic and system modelling approach. Based on Chopra's human contestability (Chopra, 2003, 2007) approach to poverty, this new approach to measuring poverty has been developed using a structure equation model based on Kanji's business excellence model (Kanji, 2002) to create the proposed poverty model. We construct a latent variable structural equation model to measure the contestability excellence within certain boundaries of the societal system. It will provide us with a measurement of poverty in a society or community ...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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