IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/wly/jintdv/v23y2011i1p29-41.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Developing an asset threshold using the consensual approach: Results from Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe

Author

Listed:
  • Oliver Mtapuri

Abstract

Although poverty lines have been constructed on the basis of an income threshold, this article defines a poverty line on the basis of an asset threshold using the consensual approach as postulated by Mack and Lansley. In this article, an asset threshold is defined using this approach, which is a European method in an African rural setting. The determination of the asset threshold—the Minimally Adequate Asset Level, which is context-sensitive, fixed bundle of assets, is the major contribution of this article. This asset poverty line opens up possibilities for calculating asset‐based FGT measures as well as an asset‐gini‐coefficient. The article also shows that location matters in the perception of poverty as a consequence of differing lifestyles. Copyright (C) 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Suggested Citation

  • Oliver Mtapuri, 2011. "Developing an asset threshold using the consensual approach: Results from Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 23(1), pages 29-41, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:jintdv:v:23:y:2011:i:1:p:29-41
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1002/jid.1605
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Marco Pomati & Shailen Nandy, 2020. "Measuring Multidimensional Poverty According to National Definitions: Operationalising Target 1.2 of the Sustainable Development Goals," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 148(1), pages 105-126, February.
    2. Anne-Catherine Guio & David Gordon & Eric Marlier & Hector Najera & Marco Pomati, 2018. "Towards an EU measure of child deprivation," Child Indicators Research, Springer;The International Society of Child Indicators (ISCI), vol. 11(3), pages 835-860, June.
    3. Anne-Catherine Guio & Eric Marlier & Frank Vandenbroucke & Pim Verbunt, 2022. "Differences in Child Deprivation Across Europe: The Role of In-Cash and In-Kind Transfers," Child Indicators Research, Springer;The International Society of Child Indicators (ISCI), vol. 15(6), pages 2363-2388, December.
    4. Shailen Nandy & Marco Pomati, 2015. "Applying the Consensual Method of Estimating Poverty in a Low Income African Setting," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 124(3), pages 693-726, December.
    5. Musiwa, Anthony Shuko, 2019. "Multidimensional child poverty in Zimbabwe: Extent, risk patterns and implications for policy, practice and research," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 104(C), pages 1-1.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:wly:jintdv:v:23:y:2011:i:1:p:29-41. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Wiley Content Delivery (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/5102/home .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.