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On statistical Mapping of Poverty: Social Reality, Concepts and Measurement

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This article concerns the need to define poverty in a way to be relevant to the context it is to refer, to be compatible with data availability and to be useful for policy purposes. It discusses the adequacy of concepts to different socioeconomic situations and analyses the two approaches to poverty — basic needs and income (or poverty line) — in what concerns their advantages and shortcomings. It highlights how perverse the generalization of the use of the poverty line approach can be, specially when applied to socioeconomic settings where income is an inadequate parameter of well-being and the data base is insufficient for its adequate operacionalisation. Este artigo trata da necessidade de definir pobreza de modo que o conceito seja relevante no contexto ao qual se pretende aplicá-lo, compatível com a disponibilidade de dados estatísticos e útil para o desenho de políticas públicas. Discute a adequação do conceito a diferentes situações socioeconômicas e analisa as duas abordagens de pobreza — a dos basic need e a da renda ( ou da linha de pobreza) — no que concerne a suas vantagens e desvantagens. O artigo destaca quão perversa pode ser a generalização do uso da abordagem da linha de pobreza, especialmente quando aplicada a contextos socioeconômicos em que a renda não é um parâmetro adequado de bem-estar e os dados estatísticos disponíveis são insuficientes para a sua operacionalização.

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  • Sonia Rocha, 2015. "On statistical Mapping of Poverty: Social Reality, Concepts and Measurement," Discussion Papers 0076, Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada - IPEA.
  • Handle: RePEc:ipe:ipetds:0076
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