Medición de los niveles de pobreza y su relación con el medio ambiente
Traditional forms of measuring poverty have not explicity considered factors such as the deterioration of the environment or the socio-culture context of communities. As a result, the National University, via IDESPO, and CATIE, via the Olafo Project, undertook research with the goal of elaborating a new methodological proposal for the characterization and social diagnostic of the communities, which includes these types of variables. The application of traditional questionnaires versus other alternatives methods demonstrated that the quantitative valuations on poverty did not respond to the perceptions of the communities. In the case of K{llig}koldi indigenous reserve in Talamanca, Costa Rica, according to the LP method, the extreme poverty and 16 percent in extreme poverty. Nevertheless, from the community perspective, poverty level is not appropriately reflected in the traditional parameters; they evaluate their situation with additional variables, such as culture and territory.
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Turrialba (Costa Rica)
1997
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| Subjects: | POBREZA, DESARROLLO RURAL, ASPECTOS SOCIOECONOMICOS, MEDIO AMBIENTE, PAPEL DE LA MUJER, TALAMANCA, COSTA RICA, |
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| Summary: | Traditional forms of measuring poverty have not explicity considered factors such as the deterioration of the environment or the socio-culture context of communities. As a result, the National University, via IDESPO, and CATIE, via the Olafo Project, undertook research with the goal of elaborating a new methodological proposal for the characterization and social diagnostic of the communities, which includes these types of variables. The application of traditional questionnaires versus other alternatives methods demonstrated that the quantitative valuations on poverty did not respond to the perceptions of the communities. In the case of K{llig}koldi indigenous reserve in Talamanca, Costa Rica, according to the LP method, the extreme poverty and 16 percent in extreme poverty. Nevertheless, from the community perspective, poverty level is not appropriately reflected in the traditional parameters; they evaluate their situation with additional variables, such as culture and territory. |
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