Rebuilding Babel: finding common development solutions using cross-contextual comparisons of multidimensional well-being
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 multidime...
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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj.art-6c94f25793784ea586cd38dcce4fe6942022-12-21T23:12:03ZengAssociação Brasileira de Estudos PopulacionaisRevista Brasileira de Estudos de População0102-30982013-06-0130127129710.1590/S0102-30982013000100013S0102-30982013000100013Rebuilding Babel: finding common development solutions using cross-contextual comparisons of multidimensional well-beingJames R. Hull0Gilvan Guedes1University of CaliforniaUniversidade Federal de Minas GeraisIn 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.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-30982013000100013&lng=en&tlng=enPobreza multidimensionalAmazoniaTailandiaComparación entre contextosGrade of Membership |
| spellingShingle | James R. Hull Gilvan Guedes Rebuilding Babel: finding common development solutions using cross-contextual comparisons of multidimensional well-being Revista Brasileira de Estudos de População Pobreza multidimensional Amazonia Tailandia Comparación entre contextos Grade of Membership |
| title | Rebuilding Babel: finding common development solutions using cross-contextual comparisons of multidimensional well-being |
| title_full | Rebuilding Babel: finding common development solutions using cross-contextual comparisons of multidimensional well-being |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Rebuilding Babel: finding common development solutions using cross-contextual comparisons of multidimensional well-being |
| title_short | Rebuilding Babel: finding common development solutions using cross-contextual comparisons of multidimensional well-being |
| title_sort | rebuilding babel finding common development solutions using cross contextual comparisons of multidimensional well being |
| topic | Pobreza multidimensional Amazonia Tailandia Comparación entre contextos Grade of Membership |
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