Core Poverty, Basic Capabilities and Vagueness: An Application to the South African Context.
This paper applies a framework which addresses the vagueness of poverty. The 'core poor' are those who are unambiguously poor. In applying the framework we use Sen's capability approach and results from a recent survey. These results suggest that some South Africans set tough standard...
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| Format: | Working paper |
| Language: | English |
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GPRG
2005
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