Capabilities in Place

Locating Poverty and Affluence in Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2183563
AutoresTom De Herdt (0000-0002-5288-7446), Wim Marivoet (0000-0001-8853-4565)
Ano2011
Volume12
Fascículo2
Páginas235-256
Data de publicação2011-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Human Development (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1464-9888 • E-ISSN: 1469-9516
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/19452829.2011.571084
OpenAlexW1979376158
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas10

We argue that the capability approach can be very helpful in exploring the links between poverty and place, thereby providing a more accurate understanding of poverty processes. We demonstrate how Sen's list of 'conversion factors' allows one to incorporate but also to go beyond the usual description of the connection between place and well-being in terms of physical and social infrastructure. More in particular, we give emphasis on the role of place in the conversion of doings into earnings. We then apply the theoretical argument to a representative sample of households in Kinshasa. Although monetary indicators of well-being and poverty indicate a downward levelling of different regions of the capital city that have been historically quite different, an exploration of the different sources of parametric variation suggests that place does continue to have a significant impact on well-being

Basic needs · Culture of poverty · Democracy · Development economics · Earnings · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Sociology · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Law · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction