We thank both the reviewer and CYE for reviewing Child Poverty in the Developing World. The repor... more We thank both the reviewer and CYE for reviewing Child Poverty in the Developing World. The report summarized a project conducted for UNICEF by the Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research at the University of Bristol and the London School of Economics. A more detailed publication is in preparation, which discusses many of the salient points raised by the reviewer, and also includes data from a number of other countries and regions.
A partir de l’Enquete Modulaire Integree sur les Conditions de Vie des Menages (EMICoV) conduite ... more A partir de l’Enquete Modulaire Integree sur les Conditions de Vie des Menages (EMICoV) conduite en complement a l’Enquete Demographique et de Sante (EDSB III) de 2006, cet article presente la premiere etude de la pauvrete multidimensionnelle utilisant l'approche consensuelle de mesure de la pauvrete au Benin. En nous appuyant sur les travaux inspires de Townsend et de son concept de la privation relative, nous montrons comment une approche sociale peut constituer la base d'un indice de privation a la fois valide et fiable, qui peut etre utilise afin de refleter la pauvrete multidimensionnelle. L'article aborde egalement la question des preferences adaptatives, une theorie souvent invoquee pour critiquer l'approche consensuelle. Nous montrons que l'idee selon laquelle les plus pauvres tendraient a sous-estimer leurs besoins ne se verifie pas a partir des donnees pour le Benin.
As preferências adaptativas são sustentadas no pressuposto de que a experiência de privação envie... more As preferências adaptativas são sustentadas no pressuposto de que a experiência de privação enviesa as preferências dos sujeitos para a sua adaptação a condições adversas de vida, impactando o que se considera dignidade humana. Por isso, alguns autores indicam que esse viés deveria ser considerado para a formulação e a implementação de políticas públicas voltadas a populações vulneráveis e empobrecidas. Este estudo tem por objetivo apresentar evidências empíricas para o debate crítico sobre as preferências adaptativas, encontradas no estudo sobre pobreza multidimensional na cidade de São Paulo e como contribui para os contornos do conceito de dignidade humana. A partir da Abordagem Consensual, investigamos os níveis de consenso entre várias parcelas da população paulistana e o seu nível de privação. Eram esperados impactos das preferências adaptativas no consenso e na predileção dos mais pobres sobre o que é necessário para um padrão de vida digno no Brasil de hoje. No entanto, os r...
Revista Jurídica Trabalho e Desenvolvimento Humano
Este artigo tem por objetivo apresentar a relação entre trabalho decente e pobreza a partir da pe... more Este artigo tem por objetivo apresentar a relação entre trabalho decente e pobreza a partir da percepção de participantes de oito grupos focais, realizados em 2019, na cidade de Campinas, São Paulo. Utilizando a metodologia da Abordagem Consensual, os grupos focais possibilitaram que os participantes discutissem suas perspectivas sobre o que é pobreza. A partir dessas discussões, empreendemos uma análise de conteúdo, buscando a interpretação dos significados das falas dos participantes. A relação entre pobreza e trabalho emergiu como um dos mais significativos aspectos dessas discussões, reforçando o conceito do trabalho decente como elemento essencial para a erradicação da pobreza. Os grupos focais forneceram análises para a construção do conceito de trabalho decente, apontando para a problemática da compreensão do trabalho como um regulador de acesso a direitos sociais, desconsiderando-o como um direito social. Este estudo lança bases para uma discussão psicossocial na utilização ...
The Sustainable Development Goals require countries to report on progress in reducing poverty in ... more The Sustainable Development Goals require countries to report on progress in reducing poverty in all its dimensions, for adults and children, according to national definitions; this requires changes to how poverty data are collected and analysed. This chapter examines how, following the integration of the Consensual Approach (CA) in the Uganda National Household Survey (UBOS, 2017), democratic definitions and measures of child poverty can be developed on the basis of national consensus about what constitutes an acceptable standard of living. This chapter also provides unique insight on the application of the CA in refugee and host communities. Indicators are based on age-appropriate criteria and reflect children’s economic and social rights and national frameworks, such as the Constitution of Uganda. In this chapter we focus specifically on developing democratic measures of socially perceived educational necessities, use them to derive Uganda’s multidimensional child poverty profile...
This report reviews available data on Travellers' health and highlights the difficulties in m... more This report reviews available data on Travellers' health and highlights the difficulties in making accurate assessments of the health of the travelling population and the comparative poverty of research on the health experience of Travellers.
Poor households disproportionately lack access to services, yet this is rarely considered in pove... more Poor households disproportionately lack access to services, yet this is rarely considered in poverty measures. Service provision can vary significantly between and within countries, and so similar levels of household resources may translate to very different living standards. Where universal provision of basic services is lacking, current approaches to poverty measurement may result in underestimates, thereby raising comparability and identification issues. We propose a conceptual framework to incorporate service provision into multidimensional poverty measures, based on a modification to the consensual approach. The modification would create improved context-specific poverty measures, enabling a more nuanced understanding about effective access to services.
This is not a data deposit; it is a description of how interested parties can access the data fro... more This is not a data deposit; it is a description of how interested parties can access the data from the original DHS and MICS repositories. The DHS and MICS are household survey micro-data, made available to researchers, for free, to investigate a range of social, health, and other issues in low and middle-income countries. Surveys are usually run every 3-5 years and can be accessed from the DHS and MICS websites.
Background This study aims to evaluate trends of DBM in Peru over the last 20 years. Methods Usin... more Background This study aims to evaluate trends of DBM in Peru over the last 20 years. Methods Using individual-level data collected in nationally representative household surveys from Peru between 1996 and 2017, we analysed trends in the prevalence and patterning of the DBM. We classified the nutritional status of children and their mothers as undernourished (either underweight, stunted or wasted for children), normal, overweight or obese. Children classified as experiencing the DBM were those undernourished and living with an overweight or obese mother. We also fitted logistic regression models to evaluate the probability of children having an overweight/obese mother across subgroups of socioeconomic status, place of residence and education. Results The overall percentage of children experiencing the DBM in 2016 was 7%, and constitutes ~203,600 children (90% of whom were stunted). Between 1996 and 2016, undernourished children have seen the largest relative increase in the risk of h...
This study assessed the relationship between urbanization and the double burden of malnutrition (... more This study assessed the relationship between urbanization and the double burden of malnutrition (DBM) in Peru.
Undernutrition continues to be a primary cause of ill-health and premature mortality among childr... more Undernutrition continues to be a primary cause of ill-health and premature mortality among children in developing countries. This paper examines how the prevalence of undernutrition in children is measured and argues that the standard indices of stunting, wasting and underweight may each be underestimating the scale of the problem. This has important implications for policy-makers, planners and organizations seeking to meet international development targets. Using anthropometric data on 24 396 children in India, an alternative Composite Index of Anthropometric Failure (CIAF) was constructed and compared with conventional indices. The CIAF examines the relationship between distinct subgroups of anthropometric failure, poverty and morbidity, showing that children with multiple anthropometric failures are at a greater risk of morbidity and are more likely to come from poorer households. While recognizing that stunting, wasting and underweight refl ect distinct biological processes of c...
We thank both the reviewer and CYE for reviewing Child Poverty in the Developing World. The repor... more We thank both the reviewer and CYE for reviewing Child Poverty in the Developing World. The report summarized a project conducted for UNICEF by the Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research at the University of Bristol and the London School of Economics. A more detailed publication is in preparation, which discusses many of the salient points raised by the reviewer, and also includes data from a number of other countries and regions.
A partir de l’Enquete Modulaire Integree sur les Conditions de Vie des Menages (EMICoV) conduite ... more A partir de l’Enquete Modulaire Integree sur les Conditions de Vie des Menages (EMICoV) conduite en complement a l’Enquete Demographique et de Sante (EDSB III) de 2006, cet article presente la premiere etude de la pauvrete multidimensionnelle utilisant l'approche consensuelle de mesure de la pauvrete au Benin. En nous appuyant sur les travaux inspires de Townsend et de son concept de la privation relative, nous montrons comment une approche sociale peut constituer la base d'un indice de privation a la fois valide et fiable, qui peut etre utilise afin de refleter la pauvrete multidimensionnelle. L'article aborde egalement la question des preferences adaptatives, une theorie souvent invoquee pour critiquer l'approche consensuelle. Nous montrons que l'idee selon laquelle les plus pauvres tendraient a sous-estimer leurs besoins ne se verifie pas a partir des donnees pour le Benin.
As preferências adaptativas são sustentadas no pressuposto de que a experiência de privação envie... more As preferências adaptativas são sustentadas no pressuposto de que a experiência de privação enviesa as preferências dos sujeitos para a sua adaptação a condições adversas de vida, impactando o que se considera dignidade humana. Por isso, alguns autores indicam que esse viés deveria ser considerado para a formulação e a implementação de políticas públicas voltadas a populações vulneráveis e empobrecidas. Este estudo tem por objetivo apresentar evidências empíricas para o debate crítico sobre as preferências adaptativas, encontradas no estudo sobre pobreza multidimensional na cidade de São Paulo e como contribui para os contornos do conceito de dignidade humana. A partir da Abordagem Consensual, investigamos os níveis de consenso entre várias parcelas da população paulistana e o seu nível de privação. Eram esperados impactos das preferências adaptativas no consenso e na predileção dos mais pobres sobre o que é necessário para um padrão de vida digno no Brasil de hoje. No entanto, os r...
Revista Jurídica Trabalho e Desenvolvimento Humano
Este artigo tem por objetivo apresentar a relação entre trabalho decente e pobreza a partir da pe... more Este artigo tem por objetivo apresentar a relação entre trabalho decente e pobreza a partir da percepção de participantes de oito grupos focais, realizados em 2019, na cidade de Campinas, São Paulo. Utilizando a metodologia da Abordagem Consensual, os grupos focais possibilitaram que os participantes discutissem suas perspectivas sobre o que é pobreza. A partir dessas discussões, empreendemos uma análise de conteúdo, buscando a interpretação dos significados das falas dos participantes. A relação entre pobreza e trabalho emergiu como um dos mais significativos aspectos dessas discussões, reforçando o conceito do trabalho decente como elemento essencial para a erradicação da pobreza. Os grupos focais forneceram análises para a construção do conceito de trabalho decente, apontando para a problemática da compreensão do trabalho como um regulador de acesso a direitos sociais, desconsiderando-o como um direito social. Este estudo lança bases para uma discussão psicossocial na utilização ...
The Sustainable Development Goals require countries to report on progress in reducing poverty in ... more The Sustainable Development Goals require countries to report on progress in reducing poverty in all its dimensions, for adults and children, according to national definitions; this requires changes to how poverty data are collected and analysed. This chapter examines how, following the integration of the Consensual Approach (CA) in the Uganda National Household Survey (UBOS, 2017), democratic definitions and measures of child poverty can be developed on the basis of national consensus about what constitutes an acceptable standard of living. This chapter also provides unique insight on the application of the CA in refugee and host communities. Indicators are based on age-appropriate criteria and reflect children’s economic and social rights and national frameworks, such as the Constitution of Uganda. In this chapter we focus specifically on developing democratic measures of socially perceived educational necessities, use them to derive Uganda’s multidimensional child poverty profile...
This report reviews available data on Travellers' health and highlights the difficulties in m... more This report reviews available data on Travellers' health and highlights the difficulties in making accurate assessments of the health of the travelling population and the comparative poverty of research on the health experience of Travellers.
Poor households disproportionately lack access to services, yet this is rarely considered in pove... more Poor households disproportionately lack access to services, yet this is rarely considered in poverty measures. Service provision can vary significantly between and within countries, and so similar levels of household resources may translate to very different living standards. Where universal provision of basic services is lacking, current approaches to poverty measurement may result in underestimates, thereby raising comparability and identification issues. We propose a conceptual framework to incorporate service provision into multidimensional poverty measures, based on a modification to the consensual approach. The modification would create improved context-specific poverty measures, enabling a more nuanced understanding about effective access to services.
This is not a data deposit; it is a description of how interested parties can access the data fro... more This is not a data deposit; it is a description of how interested parties can access the data from the original DHS and MICS repositories. The DHS and MICS are household survey micro-data, made available to researchers, for free, to investigate a range of social, health, and other issues in low and middle-income countries. Surveys are usually run every 3-5 years and can be accessed from the DHS and MICS websites.
Background This study aims to evaluate trends of DBM in Peru over the last 20 years. Methods Usin... more Background This study aims to evaluate trends of DBM in Peru over the last 20 years. Methods Using individual-level data collected in nationally representative household surveys from Peru between 1996 and 2017, we analysed trends in the prevalence and patterning of the DBM. We classified the nutritional status of children and their mothers as undernourished (either underweight, stunted or wasted for children), normal, overweight or obese. Children classified as experiencing the DBM were those undernourished and living with an overweight or obese mother. We also fitted logistic regression models to evaluate the probability of children having an overweight/obese mother across subgroups of socioeconomic status, place of residence and education. Results The overall percentage of children experiencing the DBM in 2016 was 7%, and constitutes ~203,600 children (90% of whom were stunted). Between 1996 and 2016, undernourished children have seen the largest relative increase in the risk of h...
This study assessed the relationship between urbanization and the double burden of malnutrition (... more This study assessed the relationship between urbanization and the double burden of malnutrition (DBM) in Peru.
Undernutrition continues to be a primary cause of ill-health and premature mortality among childr... more Undernutrition continues to be a primary cause of ill-health and premature mortality among children in developing countries. This paper examines how the prevalence of undernutrition in children is measured and argues that the standard indices of stunting, wasting and underweight may each be underestimating the scale of the problem. This has important implications for policy-makers, planners and organizations seeking to meet international development targets. Using anthropometric data on 24 396 children in India, an alternative Composite Index of Anthropometric Failure (CIAF) was constructed and compared with conventional indices. The CIAF examines the relationship between distinct subgroups of anthropometric failure, poverty and morbidity, showing that children with multiple anthropometric failures are at a greater risk of morbidity and are more likely to come from poorer households. While recognizing that stunting, wasting and underweight refl ect distinct biological processes of c...
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