Rebuilding Babel

Finding Common Development Solutions Using Cross-Contextual Comparisons of Multidimensional Well-Being

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3013571
AutoresJames R Hull (0000-0002-1799-8204, University of California, Irvine, autor de correspondencia), Gilvan R Guedes (0000-0001-8231-238X, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais), Gilvan Guedes
Año2013
Volumen30
Número1
Páginas271-297
Fecha de publicación2013-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaRevista Brasileira de Estudos de População (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0102-3098 • E-ISSN: 1980-5519
EditorialFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/s0102-30982013000100013
OpenAlexW2113386545
SCIELO_PIDS0102-30982013000100013
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas19

In this paper the theoretical tradition of coping strategies and capital portfolios is used as the basis for adaption and combination of existing methodologies to analyze well-being in rural households. Special attention is given to comparisons among different contexts. First we estimate a multidimensional measurement of poverty based on fuzzy logic for two areas of rural frontiers: Nang Rong, Thailand, and Altamira, in the Amazon Basin in Brazil. To enable a cross-contextual comparison we calculated a second estimate using a subset of shared measurements in the two areas. The findings suggest that the pattern of responses on a range of numerous key variables - including education, income and demographic dependency ratio - is robust for the model specification. It is concluded that comparative generalizations, useful in formulating cost-effective public policy interventions across contexts, could be satisfactorily identified in many situations. More generically, this approach provides researchers and policymakers with a framework for understanding the interaction of contexts with the subjective construction of well-being. The understanding of this interaction is useful for distinguishing stable corollaries of poverty from those that are volatile across contexts

Cognitive psychology · Coping (psychology · Econometrics · Economic growth · Economics · Fuzzy logic · Management science · Poverty · Psychological intervention · Sociology · Agricultural risk and resilience · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Mathematics · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Psychology