Rebuilding Babel: finding common development solutions using cross-contextual comparisons of multidimensional well-being

Revista Brasileira de Estudos de População

James R. Hull²  Gilvan Guedes¹ 

[1] ,University of California School of Social Sciences Irvine

关键词: Multidimensional poverty;    Amazonia;    Thailand;    Cross-site comparison;    Grade of membership;    Pobreza multidimensional;    Amazônia;    Tailândia;    Pobreza multidimensional;    Amazonia;    Tailandia;    Comparación entre contextos;    Grade of Membership;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0102-30982013000100013

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

In this paper the theoretical tradition of coping strategies and capital portfolios is used as the basis for adaption and combination of existing methodologies to analyze well-being in rural households. Special attention is given to comparisons among different contexts. First we estimate a multidimensional measurement of poverty based on fuzzy logic for two areas of rural frontiers: Nang Rong, Thailand, and Altamira, in the Amazon Basin in Brazil. To enable a cross-contextual comparison we calculated a second estimate using a subset of shared measurements in the two areas. The findings suggest that the pattern of responses on a range of numerous key variables - including education, income and demographic dependency ratio - is robust for the model specification. It is concluded that comparative generalizations, useful in formulating cost-effective public policy interventions across contexts, could be satisfactorily identified in many situations. More generically, this approach provides researchers and policymakers with a framework for understanding the interaction of contexts with the subjective construction of well-being. The understanding of this interaction is useful for distinguishing stable corollaries of poverty from those that are volatile across contexts.

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