An Application of Sen's Capability Approach to the Poverty in East and Southeast Asian Countries.

森的能力方法在东亚和东南亚国家贫困问题上的应用。

• 批准号: 13630041
• 负责人: IKEMOTO Yukio
• 金额: $ 2.37万
• 依托单位: University of Tokyo
• 依托单位国家: 日本
• 项目类别: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 日本
• 起止时间: 2001 至 2002
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-13630041/
• 关键词: Poverty; Income Distribution; East Asia; Southeast Asia; Capability Approach; アジア; 潜在能力

The main purpose of this research is to apply Amartya Sen's capability approach to the poverty and income inequality in East and Southeast Asian countries. In the 1990s the focus of economic development policies in the developing countries was shifted to the poverty alleviation policies. However, the poverty alleviation policies were not successful in reducing poverty. A reason is that these policies adopted implicitly or explicitly the income approach in which poverty is measured in terms of income level. In general, a single measure such as Income is not suitable to measure a multi-dimensional phenomenon such as poverty. Poverty should be measured by multi-dimensional indicator of well-being such as "capability" which is composed of vectors of functionings. Though the capability approach has long been expected to break through the difficulty of the income approach, it was not widely applied to the actual problems of poverty due to the difficulty to operationalize.In this study the ca … More pability approach was applied to the case studies of poverty and income inequality in Vietnam, Laos, China and so on. The evaluation of the existing poverty alleviation policies revealed that the inefficiency of the income approach was brought about by the indirectness of income as a measure of poverty. To the contrary, the capability, which is a direct measurement of well-being of people, can be used as a direct policy target without arbitrariness, allowing for the diversity in the way of life. The difficulty of selecting functionings, which is often argued as a deficiency of the capability approach, is not so difficult when it is applied to a certain case study of a community where many uncontested functionings can be neglected.The research results were published in journals and publications and presented at international conferences such as the conferences on the capability approach held at University of Cambridge in 2001 and 2002. The idea of this research is also reflected in the policy recommendations for the government of Laos. Practically it is also applied in the baseline survey for the people affected by an irrigation project in Vietnam. Less

本研究的主要目的是将阿马蒂亚·森的能力方法应用于东亚和东南亚国家的贫困和收入不平等问题。 20世纪90年代，发展中国家经济发展政策的重点转向扶贫政策。然而，扶贫政策并没有成功减少贫困。一个原因是这些政策或明或暗地采用了收入法，用收入水平来衡量贫困。一般来说，收入等单一指标并不适合衡量贫困等多维现象。贫困应通过多维福祉指标来衡量，例如由功能向量组成的“能力”。虽然能力方法长期以来被期望能够突破收入方法的困难，但由于操作难度较大，并未广泛应用于贫困的实际问题。本研究将能力方法应用于越南、老挝、中国等贫困和收入不平等的案例研究。对现有扶贫政策的评价表明，收入法的低效率是由于收入作为贫困衡量标准的间接性造成的。相反，能力作为人民福祉的直接衡量标准，可以作为直接的政策目标，而不是任意的，允许生活方式的多样性。功能选择的困难常常被认为是能力方法的缺陷，但当它应用于一个社区的特定案例研究时，许多无争议的功能可以被忽略时，就不再那么困难了。研究结果发表在期刊和出版物上，并在国际会议上发表，例如2001年和2002年在剑桥大学举行的能力方法会议。这项研究的想法也反映在针对社区的政策建议中。 老挝政府。实际上，它也被应用于对越南灌溉项目影响人群的基线调查。较少的

项目成果

Ikemoto Yukio: "How to Capture the Poverty : Amartya Sen's Capability Approach"Toa Keizai Kenkyu. 61 No.1. 27-39 (2002)

池本幸雄：“如何消除贫困：阿马蒂亚·森的能力方法”Toa Keizai Kenkyu。

佐藤 宏: "雲南農民における市場と商人"中兼和津次編『中国農村経済と社会の変動』. 259-287 (2002)

佐藤博：《云南农民的市场与商人》，中兼一嗣主编，《中国农村经济与社会的变迁》259-287（2002）。

IKEMOTO YUKIO: "Poverty Allevlation Policies and Ethnic Monority in Victnam"Justice and Poverty : Examining Sen's Capability Approad. (予定). (2002)

池本幸雄：“越南的减贫政策和民族荣誉”正义与贫困：审视森的能力方法（计划）。

Hiroshi Sato: "The Growth of Market Relations in Post-reform Rural China"Rontledge Curzon. 288 (2002)

佐藤博：“改革后中国农村市场关系的增长”Rontledge Curzon。

Ikemoto Yukio: "Poverty Alleviation Policies and Ethnic Minority People in Vietnam"Alkire/Comim/Qizilbash eds. Justice and Poverty : Examining Sen's Capability Approach, Cambridge University Press. (forthcoming).

池本幸雄：“越南的扶贫政策和少数民族”Alkire/Comim/Qizilbash 编辑。