Beneath the Poverty Debate
Some Issues
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11470785 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Shaffer (0000-0002-4378-3805, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 23-35 |
| Publication date | 1996-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | IDS Bulletin (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0265-5012 • E-ISSN: 1759-5436 |
| Publisher | Institute of Development Studies (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1759-5436.1996.mp27001003.x |
| OpenAlex | W2166919119 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 21 |
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 for the different methodologies and conceptions of ill?being employed. When conflicting results are attributable to differing philosophical underpinnings no neat synthesis of results is possible. The real issue facing policy makers relates to the importance afforded the priorities and knowledge of the poor
Citizen journalism · Commons · Economic growth · Economics · Epistemology · Political science · Positive economics · Poverty · Social science · Sociology · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Law · Philosophy
Third-world development
When Fishery Rhymes with Poverty
Valuing Freedoms
International Targets for Poverty Reduction and Food Security
SocialExclusion’
Comparisons, Convergence and Connections
Neglected Trade-offs in Poverty Measurement
Triangulating Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches to the Measurement of Poverty
Assessing Poverty and Poverty Alleviation
Constructing Poverty Trends in Uganda
Human Agency and Language
The Inexact and Separate Science of Economics
The Case for a Multiple-Utility Conception
Choice, welfare, and measurement
Moral consciousness and communicative action
Communication and the Evolution of Society
Theory of Communicative Action
The Methodology of Economics
Reasons for Welfare
Experience of Poverty
Poverty and Famines
Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy
Measurement of Poverty and Poverty of Measurement
Erkenntnis und Interesse
Philosophy of Social Science
The critical theory of Jürgen Habermas
Visible Actors and Visible Researchers
The Use and Misuse of Surveys in International Development
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1996 - 2004 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |