{"id":38,"date":"2017-05-15T16:45:51","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T16:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/laarg\/?p=38"},"modified":"2017-05-15T16:46:41","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T16:46:41","slug":"reading-group-25-may-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/laarg\/2017\/05\/15\/reading-group-25-may-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Group 25 May 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">This session will feature a focus on the measurement of poverty in India. Building on Amartya Sen&#8217;s groundbreaking work on how poverty must be reconceptualized to move beyond a focus on income in order to be meaningful in low- and middle-income country settings, the past two decades have seen a growing focus on measuring poverty as a multidimensional construct. This paper uses data from India to argue that focusing on individual multidimensional poverty rather than a household index provides an even more nuanced picture of poverty in India.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The short reading will be:<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Vijaya, R., Lahoti, R., and Swaminathan, H. (2014). From the household to the individual: multidimentional poverty analysis. <em>World Development\u00a0<\/em>Vol. 59, pp. 70\u201381.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">If you would like to read more about multidimensional poverty, please see:<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ophi.org.uk\/multidimensional-poverty-index\/\">http:\/\/www.ophi.org.uk\/multidimensional-poverty-index\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This session will feature a focus on the measurement of poverty in India. Building on Amartya Sen&#8217;s groundbreaking work on how poverty must be reconceptualized to move beyond a focus on income in order to be meaningful in low- and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/laarg\/2017\/05\/15\/reading-group-25-may-2017\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":725,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/laarg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/laarg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/laarg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/laarg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/725"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/laarg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/laarg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/laarg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/laarg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/laarg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/laarg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}