Measuring Multidimensional Aspiration Gaps: A Means to Understanding Cultural Aspects of Poverty
Measuring Multidimensional Aspiration Gaps: A Means to Understanding Cultural Aspects of Poverty
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-7679.2010.00501.x
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发表时间：
2010-09-01
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
Camfield, Laura
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作者：
Copestake, James;Camfield, Laura
本文链接到穷人的主观幸福感的方式可以被定义和测量的贫困作为一个失败的能力，渴望越来越多的文学的主要研究。来自孟加拉国、泰国和秘鲁的数据被用来说明一种衡量战略，其基础是将福祉定义为个人多样化和多重愿望之间的差距及其对实现这些愿望的满意度的函数。这种分析有可能说明个人和地方应对不同发展机会的能力的差异。它还警告说，将愿望作为一个单一而不是多层面的概念来对待是有局限性的。
This article links primary research into the way subjective well-being among poor people can be defined and measured to the growing literature on poverty as a failure of capacity to aspire. Data from Bangladesh, Thailand and Peru are used to illustrate a measurement strategy based on defining well-being as a function of the gap between individuals' diverse and multiple aspirations, and their satisfaction with achieving them. Such analysis has the potential to illuminate variation in individual and local capacity to respond to different development opportunities. It also warns against the limitations of treating aspirations as a single rather than a multidimensional concept.