A review of measurement and causal analysis of Indigenous poverty and disadvantage in remote Australia

Sociological Methodology and Research Methods;Heterodox Economics

Maru, Yiheyis ; Chewings, Vanessa

CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences

DOI  :  10.4225/08/584af171e557d
RP-ID  :  EP107163

学科分类：地球科学(综合)

澳大利亚|英语

来源: CSIRO Research Publications Repository

【 摘 要 】

This paper is a review of current assessment frameworks, time serious features and causality analysis of Indigenous poverty and disadvantage. Current assessment frameworks of the chronic nature of Indigenous poverty and disadvantage are inadequate in terms of considering Indigenous perspectives and concerns about well-being improvement.They are also backward looking and not indicative of causal structures. Existing national longitudinal data sets have either limited coverage or inadequate Indigenous sample sizes to make any meaningful multidimensional analysis of chronic Indigenous poverty and disadvantage. Explanations as to why disadvantage and poverty persist are fragmentary and often polarized either to Indigenous culture of dependency or government policy failures. However, the persistence of Indigenous disadvantage and poverty is evident when even inadequate measures such as income are used, and this seems to indicate traps – different sets of complex feedback loops that create vicious circles and make escaping from poverty a non-linear affair.This paper suggests adapting and then adopting a broader inequality and poverty assessment framework such as a capability approach by Anmtrya Sen, as well as calls for a research that applies integrated systems approaches and modelling to explore the nature, extent and types of poverty and inequality traps among Indigenous people.