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Well-Being, Poverty and Inequality
Well-Being, Poverty and Inequality
Abstract Submissions Closed
Friday, 26 February 2021: 09:00-10:30
Location:
RC55 Social Indicators (host committee)
Language: English
Session Type: Oral
In the literature, there is a growing body of research focusing on the link between subjective well-being and poverty. Notably, the subjective poverty approach emerged in the late 1980s has attempted to include subjective well-being components into poverty measurement. In this regard, various subjective poverty lines are proposed by scholars as opposite to the traditional absolute monetary ones. From conceptual side, the life satisfaction and happiness approaches are often employed by scholars in academy to measure subjective poverty. However, the majority of multidimensional poverty studies is based on objective indicators. There are few countries who attempted officially to measure subjective poverty at national level (e.g. South Africa Statistics). Hence, development of new indicators and methodologies in subjective poverty measurement remains an important challenge in the literature. Herewith, this session addresses the following questions: the link between subjective well-being and multidimensional poverty, the use of subjective well-being indicators (including weight and measurement scale) in measurement of multidimensional poverty, debates on objective vs. subjective poverty lines, social reporting in subjective poverty, and combination of objective and subjective indicators in multidimensional poverty measurement. The form of contributions will be oral presentations in English.
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