A Multidimensional and rights approach to the measurement of Child Poverty
From a critical perspective towards the monetary approaches to poverty measurement, this paper seeks to continue the review of the recent proposals of multidimensional measurement of poverty, especially the one carried out by ECLAC and UNICEF. In this framework, we wonder: What indicators should be taken into account and what situations should be considered as deficit? What minimum thresholds should be guaranteed? What standardized measures would allow for an effective evaluation of the progress made in fighting child poverty in Argentina?. This paper presents a proposal that defines rights dimensions and thresholds in a "dual cutoff", differentiating between severe and moderate poverty. Moreover, we recognize and describe the main socio-demographic factors associated in a more structural and permanent way to child poverty. In 2011, 26,6% of children and adolescents belonged to households with social shortage in rights dimensions (13,7% had moderate shortage and 12,9% had severe ones). Deficit in living conditions represented 61,4% of severe poverty. The estimates were drawn from micro-data from the "Argentinean Survey of Social Debt" (EDSA) from the Observatory Programme of Social Debt of Argentina (2011), from the Catholic University of Argentina (UCA).
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| Format: | Digital revista |
| Language: | spa |
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Universidad de Chile. Programa Domeyko
2013
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| Online Access: | https://sye.uchile.cl/index.php/RSE/article/view/26317 |
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