Paul Shaffer
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 161256 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Paul Shaffer |
| PRENOMES | Paul |
| SOBRENOME | Shaffer |
| ASSINATURA | SHAFFER P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Trent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4378-3805 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 75 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1980 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Immiserizing Growth Fails the Poor
Immiserizing growth (IG) refers to situations where economic growth does not lead to poverty reduction. How should this phenomenon be conceptualized? How often, when and where does it occur? Why does it occur? This book aims to address these three sets of questions, drawing on a wide range of theoretical perspectives and empirical approaches. It presents a conceptualization of IG which combines the notions of failed and malevolent inclusion, bein…
Malevolent inclusion and immiserizing growth
The objective of this article is to develop the concept of malevolent inclusion, being harmed by economic growth, and to provide it with empirical import drawing on results of a recent volume on immiserizing growth, or instances where growth does not benefit the poor. To do so, the author draws heavily on contributions to a philosophical debate about doing and allowing harm. Malevolent inclusion constitutes a refinement of the notion of relationa…
Dimensions of Poverty
Dimensions of Poverty: Measurement, Epistemic Injustices, Activism." Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 22(4), pp. 759–760
Immiserizing Growth
Immiserizing Growth occurs when growth fails to benefit, or harms, those at the bottom. It is not a new concept, appearing such figures as Malthus, Ricardo and Marx. It is also not empirically insignificant, occurring in between 10% and 35% of cases, depending on the data set and the growth and poverty measures used. In spite of this, it has not received its due attention in the academic literature, dominated by the prevailing narrative that ‘gro…
What to Expect from Toronto’s Poverty Reduction Strategy
Poverty reduction strategies (PRSs) have proliferated across Canada in recent years at different levels of government. In this article, we address the question of what may reasonably be expected of such strategies, in particular the city of Toronto’s PRS, drawing on the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper experience in the Global South. We argue that key limitations related to the tight fiscal environment in which these strategies have been implemen…
Causal pluralism and mixed methods in the analysis of poverty dynamics
This paper examines the relationship between poverty dynamics, causal pluralism, and mixed method research approaches. It reviews the nature and significance of the shift from the analysis of poverty status to poverty dynamics, discusses different approaches to causal reasoning and causal inference in philosophy and the social sciences, and presents empirical examples of mixed method studies of poverty dynamics. It concludes with a case for causa…
Seasonal Hunger in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast, 1900-40
There are ongoing controversies about the effects of colonial-era policies on hunger – and the nature of hunger in precolonial societies – in the Global South which have proved difficult to adjudicate because of the fragmentary nature of empirical information. The twin facts of the relatively recent incorporation of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast into the British Empire (1896) along with an interesting assortment of data on hunger fro…
Assessing the Efficiency Costs of Vietnam's ‘Missing’ Small and Medium Sized Enterprises
This article investigates whether there are efficiency costs associated with the pronounced rightward skew in the firm size distribution, or Vietnam's ‘missing small and medium size enterprise (SMEs)’, drawing on panel data analysis of firm growth and survival. Specifically, it examines if factor allocation biases with respect to credit, preferable treatment of state owned enterprises, barriers to entry into export markets and economies of scale …
World development report 2015
Two Concepts of Causation
This article seeks to bring to the attention of a readership in development studies a distinction in the literature on causation, and to show how it matters for poverty. The distinction is between 'difference-making' and 'production' as a depiction of the causal relationship. It is argued that the 'difference-making/production' distinction lies at the root of applied debates about how to assess the impact of development programmes, how to underst…
Poverty and Development in China
Poverty and Development in China: Alternative Approaches to Poverty Assessment Caizhen Lu London and New York: Routledge, 2012, pp. 274, ISBN 9780415618229. There has been recognition for some time
Q-Squared
This book examines the underlying assumptions and implications of how we conceptualize and investigate poverty. The empirical entry point for such inquiry is a series of research initiatives which have used mixed method, or Q-squared (Q2), combined qualitative and quantitative approaches, to poverty analysis. Systematic review of the Q2 literature is relevant in itself in that it highlights the vast range of analytical tools within the social sci…
Ten Years of “Q-Squared”
Post-development and Poverty
This article presents a critical assessment of the post-development critique of poverty, distinguishing between claims made about how poverty is represented in ‘modern’ poverty analysis (the ‘representations critique’) and claims about trends in, and causal analysis of, consumption poverty (the ‘marginalisation thesis’). In general empirical evidence does not support ‘headline’ claims concerning the lack of correspondence of consumption poverty t…
Against Excessive Rhetoric in Impact Assessment
The recent attention afforded to randomisation, or Randomised Control Trials (RCTs), in impact assessment is a welcome development. The case for RCTs in international development, however, has been quite overstated. This article critically examines the seminal model underlying RCTs, the Holland-Rubin Framework, with a view to make four claims about RCTs: (i) they have limitations as conceptions of causation; (ii) their ‘idealised’ model of causal…
Poverty Dynamics
Edited by Tony Addison, David Hulme and Ravi Kanbur Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009, pp. 356, US$120, ISBN 978 0 19 955754 7 Over the past decade and a half, at least three significant change
Epistemology, Normative Theory and Poverty Analysis
Assumptions matter
In contradistinction to Ravi Kanbur's (2003) summarization of a recent conference on qualitative and quantitative poverty analysis in which he proposed a typology of differences between 'qual and quant' approaches, I argue that key elements in this typology are derivative of more basic distinctions in the philosophy of social science between three research programs: empiricism/positivism, hermeneutics, and critical theory/critical hermeneutics. T…
Poverty Naturalized
The article illustrates how philosophical assumptions affect the theory, practice, and results of poverty analysis, to the potential detriment of women and girls. It links the income/consumption approach to poverty with naturalist normative theory, which developed historically from the moral theory of David Hume. It then traces the historical development of naturalist normative theory from Hume to modern utility theory and examines its links with…
Gender, poverty and deprivation
Beneath the Poverty Debate
Summaries Within development circles, two approaches to poverty have increasingly come into prominence: the income/consumption approach and the participatory appoach. It is argued that the different results which these two approaches generate with respect to both identification of the poor and policy prescription may be attributable to underlying philosophical differences. Specifically, underlying epistemological and ethical differences account f…
Leave to Appeal and Leave to Commence Judicial Review in Canada's Refugee-Determination System
The purpose of this study is to determine whether refugees and other persons who are applying for leave to appeal a decision of the Conven- tion Refugee Determination Division of the Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board, a decision of the Appeal Division of the Immigration and Refugee,Board, or to cornmence an action for judicial review have a relatively equal chance to convince thoFederal Court of,Appeal of the merits of their applications.The…
Do Public Servants Welcome or Fear Merit Evaluation of Their Performance
The simple concept of a 'merit system' has grown into a tangled web of complicated rules and regulations. Managers are weakened in their ability to reward the best and most talented people-and to fire those few who are unwilling to work. So my first proposition is this-there is not enough merit in the merit system. There is inadequate motivation because we have too few rewards for excellence and too few penalties for unsatisfactory work
Epistemology, Normative Theory and Poverty Analysis
Ten Years of “Q-Squared”
Beneath the Poverty Debate
Summaries Within development circles, two approaches to poverty have increasingly come into prominence: the income/consumption approach and the participatory appoach. It is argued that the different results which these two approaches generate with respect to both identification of the poor and policy prescription may be attributable to underlying philosophical differences. Specifically, underlying epistemological and ethical differences account f…
Do Public Servants Welcome or Fear Merit Evaluation of Their Performance
The simple concept of a 'merit system' has grown into a tangled web of complicated rules and regulations. Managers are weakened in their ability to reward the best and most talented people-and to fire those few who are unwilling to work. So my first proposition is this-there is not enough merit in the merit system. There is inadequate motivation because we have too few rewards for excellence and too few penalties for unsatisfactory work
Gender, poverty and deprivation
Post-development and Poverty
This article presents a critical assessment of the post-development critique of poverty, distinguishing between claims made about how poverty is represented in ‘modern’ poverty analysis (the ‘representations critique’) and claims about trends in, and causal analysis of, consumption poverty (the ‘marginalisation thesis’). In general empirical evidence does not support ‘headline’ claims concerning the lack of correspondence of consumption poverty t…
Two Concepts of Causation
This article seeks to bring to the attention of a readership in development studies a distinction in the literature on causation, and to show how it matters for poverty. The distinction is between 'difference-making' and 'production' as a depiction of the causal relationship. It is argued that the 'difference-making/production' distinction lies at the root of applied debates about how to assess the impact of development programmes, how to underst…
Poverty Dynamics
Edited by Tony Addison, David Hulme and Ravi Kanbur Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009, pp. 356, US$120, ISBN 978 0 19 955754 7 Over the past decade and a half, at least three significant change
Poverty Naturalized
The article illustrates how philosophical assumptions affect the theory, practice, and results of poverty analysis, to the potential detriment of women and girls. It links the income/consumption approach to poverty with naturalist normative theory, which developed historically from the moral theory of David Hume. It then traces the historical development of naturalist normative theory from Hume to modern utility theory and examines its links with…
Seasonal Hunger in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast, 1900-40
There are ongoing controversies about the effects of colonial-era policies on hunger – and the nature of hunger in precolonial societies – in the Global South which have proved difficult to adjudicate because of the fragmentary nature of empirical information. The twin facts of the relatively recent incorporation of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast into the British Empire (1896) along with an interesting assortment of data on hunger fro…
Do Public Servants Welcome or Fear Merit Evaluation of Their Performance
The simple concept of a 'merit system' has grown into a tangled web of complicated rules and regulations. Managers are weakened in their ability to reward the best and most talented people-and to fire those few who are unwilling to work. So my first proposition is this-there is not enough merit in the merit system. There is inadequate motivation because we have too few rewards for excellence and too few penalties for unsatisfactory work
Leave to Appeal and Leave to Commence Judicial Review in Canada's Refugee-Determination System
The purpose of this study is to determine whether refugees and other persons who are applying for leave to appeal a decision of the Conven- tion Refugee Determination Division of the Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board, a decision of the Appeal Division of the Immigration and Refugee,Board, or to cornmence an action for judicial review have a relatively equal chance to convince thoFederal Court of,Appeal of the merits of their applications.The…
Beneath the Poverty Debate
Summaries Within development circles, two approaches to poverty have increasingly come into prominence: the income/consumption approach and the participatory appoach. It is argued that the different results which these two approaches generate with respect to both identification of the poor and policy prescription may be attributable to underlying philosophical differences. Specifically, underlying epistemological and ethical differences account f…
Gender, poverty and deprivation
Poverty Naturalized
The article illustrates how philosophical assumptions affect the theory, practice, and results of poverty analysis, to the potential detriment of women and girls. It links the income/consumption approach to poverty with naturalist normative theory, which developed historically from the moral theory of David Hume. It then traces the historical development of naturalist normative theory from Hume to modern utility theory and examines its links with…
Assumptions matter
In contradistinction to Ravi Kanbur's (2003) summarization of a recent conference on qualitative and quantitative poverty analysis in which he proposed a typology of differences between 'qual and quant' approaches, I argue that key elements in this typology are derivative of more basic distinctions in the philosophy of social science between three research programs: empiricism/positivism, hermeneutics, and critical theory/critical hermeneutics. T…
Epistemology, Normative Theory and Poverty Analysis
Poverty Dynamics
Edited by Tony Addison, David Hulme and Ravi Kanbur Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009, pp. 356, US$120, ISBN 978 0 19 955754 7 Over the past decade and a half, at least three significant change
Against Excessive Rhetoric in Impact Assessment
The recent attention afforded to randomisation, or Randomised Control Trials (RCTs), in impact assessment is a welcome development. The case for RCTs in international development, however, has been quite overstated. This article critically examines the seminal model underlying RCTs, the Holland-Rubin Framework, with a view to make four claims about RCTs: (i) they have limitations as conceptions of causation; (ii) their ‘idealised’ model of causal…
Post-development and Poverty
This article presents a critical assessment of the post-development critique of poverty, distinguishing between claims made about how poverty is represented in ‘modern’ poverty analysis (the ‘representations critique’) and claims about trends in, and causal analysis of, consumption poverty (the ‘marginalisation thesis’). In general empirical evidence does not support ‘headline’ claims concerning the lack of correspondence of consumption poverty t…
Poverty and Development in China
Poverty and Development in China: Alternative Approaches to Poverty Assessment Caizhen Lu London and New York: Routledge, 2012, pp. 274, ISBN 9780415618229. There has been recognition for some time
Q-Squared
This book examines the underlying assumptions and implications of how we conceptualize and investigate poverty. The empirical entry point for such inquiry is a series of research initiatives which have used mixed method, or Q-squared (Q2), combined qualitative and quantitative approaches, to poverty analysis. Systematic review of the Q2 literature is relevant in itself in that it highlights the vast range of analytical tools within the social sci…
Ten Years of “Q-Squared”
World development report 2015
Two Concepts of Causation
This article seeks to bring to the attention of a readership in development studies a distinction in the literature on causation, and to show how it matters for poverty. The distinction is between 'difference-making' and 'production' as a depiction of the causal relationship. It is argued that the 'difference-making/production' distinction lies at the root of applied debates about how to assess the impact of development programmes, how to underst…
Seasonal Hunger in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast, 1900-40
There are ongoing controversies about the effects of colonial-era policies on hunger – and the nature of hunger in precolonial societies – in the Global South which have proved difficult to adjudicate because of the fragmentary nature of empirical information. The twin facts of the relatively recent incorporation of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast into the British Empire (1896) along with an interesting assortment of data on hunger fro…
Assessing the Efficiency Costs of Vietnam's ‘Missing’ Small and Medium Sized Enterprises
This article investigates whether there are efficiency costs associated with the pronounced rightward skew in the firm size distribution, or Vietnam's ‘missing small and medium size enterprise (SMEs)’, drawing on panel data analysis of firm growth and survival. Specifically, it examines if factor allocation biases with respect to credit, preferable treatment of state owned enterprises, barriers to entry into export markets and economies of scale …
Causal pluralism and mixed methods in the analysis of poverty dynamics
This paper examines the relationship between poverty dynamics, causal pluralism, and mixed method research approaches. It reviews the nature and significance of the shift from the analysis of poverty status to poverty dynamics, discusses different approaches to causal reasoning and causal inference in philosophy and the social sciences, and presents empirical examples of mixed method studies of poverty dynamics. It concludes with a case for causa…
Immiserizing Growth
Immiserizing Growth occurs when growth fails to benefit, or harms, those at the bottom. It is not a new concept, appearing such figures as Malthus, Ricardo and Marx. It is also not empirically insignificant, occurring in between 10% and 35% of cases, depending on the data set and the growth and poverty measures used. In spite of this, it has not received its due attention in the academic literature, dominated by the prevailing narrative that ‘gro…
What to Expect from Toronto’s Poverty Reduction Strategy
Poverty reduction strategies (PRSs) have proliferated across Canada in recent years at different levels of government. In this article, we address the question of what may reasonably be expected of such strategies, in particular the city of Toronto’s PRS, drawing on the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper experience in the Global South. We argue that key limitations related to the tight fiscal environment in which these strategies have been implemen…
Dimensions of Poverty
Dimensions of Poverty: Measurement, Epistemic Injustices, Activism." Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 22(4), pp. 759–760
Malevolent inclusion and immiserizing growth
The objective of this article is to develop the concept of malevolent inclusion, being harmed by economic growth, and to provide it with empirical import drawing on results of a recent volume on immiserizing growth, or instances where growth does not benefit the poor. To do so, the author draws heavily on contributions to a philosophical debate about doing and allowing harm. Malevolent inclusion constitutes a refinement of the notion of relationa…
Immiserizing Growth Fails the Poor
Immiserizing growth (IG) refers to situations where economic growth does not lead to poverty reduction. How should this phenomenon be conceptualized? How often, when and where does it occur? Why does it occur? This book aims to address these three sets of questions, drawing on a wide range of theoretical perspectives and empirical approaches. It presents a conceptualization of IG which combines the notions of failed and malevolent inclusion, bein…
Economics (19 obras) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (17 obras) · Political science (17 obras) · Poverty (15 obras) · Economic growth (12 obras) · Sociology (12 obras) · Epistemology (9 obras) · Law (9 obras) · Positive economics (9 obras) · Development economics (8 obras)